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To: Artifex who wrote (458)	7/21/1999 5:44:00 PM
From: Hatim Zaghloul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16863

Thanks for clarifying a number of items. I have broken my own rules and asked for engineering help regarding SNMP. As you pointed out, SNMP can be used to monitor and control units. The issue is what parameter can be set and what not; it is all defined in the private enterprise MIB that is set for any specific device. For the Hopper Plus, we have defined a private MIB that will allow us to change channels, ranks, status (Remote, Basestation or Repeater), ..... etc. All this is done through defining OIDs in the private MIB for each parameter to be controlled, and then use that OID to control and configure the unit through an SNMP manager. The recent release of the Hopper Plus uses SNMP to control the units. The configuration button you are referring to is there for historic reasons. Some customers are used to it and prefer it to SNMP. Our units do not support Telnet. We are close with the RS232 management port but we do not have an rlogin window. Thanks again for your clarifying remarks. Hatim

To: Artifex who wrote (458)	7/21/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: puzzlecraft	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16863

Artifex, Now I'm understanding the problem much more clearly. Remote configuration via the web sounds like a highly useful attribute, and if not that then at least a TELNET like interface through a serial port. Hatim in Message 10583435 did say that "the products" are configurable through an "RS232 interface", which is in fact a serial interface. IF that interface is capable of something like a TELNET text session, then that means that Nathanc's original statement - that the devices are required to brought down - is no longer true (I think). Hatim also mentioned in the same message, SNMP, which Nathanc caught as "walking a thin line"... leading to a wild but educational goose chase, distracting me from the RS232 part of Hatim's answer, which is now the point of my focus. Question to Hatim, can a TELNET like configuation session be conducted on Wi-LAN's products via the RS232 port, while they are in operation? Any plans for incorporating HTTP servers into the newer products? John