Sierra Wireless 2170042 Manual

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Rev A Dec.08 8

Restrictions for Modem Name

FortheModemName,youshouldusesomethingwhichis

uniquebutalsoeasytoremember.Yourcompanynameorthe

intendedfunctionofthemodemarerecommended.Ifyou

havemorethanonemodemandwanttonamethemthesame,

youcanappendanumberforeach.Sinceit

isanInternet 

domainname,therearesomerestrictionsforthename.

• Mustbeginwithaletterornumber

• Canincludeahyphen(‐)

• Cannotcontainspaces

• Mustbenolongerthan20characterstotal

Data Usage for IP Manager Server

Updates

TheIPManagerupdateisasmallpacketsenttotheserver

witharesponsesentbacktothemodem.Ifyouhave

*IPMGRUPDATE1or*IPMGRUPDATE2settoanynumber

butzero,themodemwillsendtheupdatenotonlywhenit

receivesanewIPaddressbutatthetime

intervalaswell.The

datatrafficcouldbebilledbyyourcarrier.

Eachupdateisatotalof68bytesfromthemodemwitha50

bytetotalresponsefromtheserverforaroundtripupdateof

118bytes.

Eairlink.com

Asaservice,SierraWirelessAirLinkSolutionsmaintainsaIP

Managerserverswhichcanbeusedfor anyAirLinkmodem.

• *DOMAIN:eairlink.com

• *IPMANAGER1:edns2.eairlink.com

• *IPMANAGER2:eairlink.com

interval

(minutes)

total bytes

per day (24

hours)

interval

(minutes)

total bytes

per day (24

hours)

10 16992 bytes 60 2832 bytes

30 5664 bytes 500 339.84 bytes