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==== Power them all up ====

Once you've got the firmware on your machine, you'll need to put it on the radios. First, you'll configure your machine to have a static address is in the 192.168.1.x subnet. Any address besides 192.168.1.20 will work. Next, take an unpowered radio, and depress the reset button. Continue to hold the reset button, and plug the radio in. Continue holding the reset button until the lights on the radio flash 1-3, 2-4, 1-3, 2-4. Release the reset button.

The radio is now in TFTP flash mode. You'll want to ping 192.168.1.20 to make sure that you've got a connection to the radio. Navigate to the directory where you've stored the firmware binary, and flash it to the radio using the following commands, there is not tab-to-finish in TFTP, so you'll have to type everything out:

  tftp 192.168.1.20
  bin
  trace
  put firmware_binary

Did this via tftp ([http://www.ubnt.com/wiki/Firmware_Recovery#Linux_Users instructions])

Wait until you see the lights stop cascadaing back and forth, and an ARP request like:

     02:56:43.542358 ARP, Request who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 0.0.0.0, length 46
     02:56:43.844753 ARP, Request who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 0.0.0.0, length 46
     02:56:44.147153 ARP, Request who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 0.0.0.0, length 46
     02:56:44.449547 ARP, Request who-has 0.0.0.0 tell 0.0.0.0, length 46

before you consider the firmware complete. Also be VERY gentle with the reset switch. Very light pressure required. Use a paper clip. '''DO NOT USE A SCREWDRIVER'''. This will almost certainly break the reset switch.

Once the transfer has finished, you can quit TFTP. Wait several minutes for the radio to reboot. Once it comes back online, navigate to 192.168.1.20 in your browser. You should be presented with the ubiquiti web interface. The default username and password are ubnt:ubnt. We recommend changing the admin user name, and the hostname. Our radios are named FNF2-0, FNF2-1, FNF2-2, and FNF5-0, FNF5-1, and FNF5-2. Once you've changed these settings, you should also ssh into the machine in order to change the password, using the command passwd.

All  radios should be set to bridge mode, and configured to obtain an address  via DHCP. The 2-0 and 5-0 radios will be configured as access points,  and the 2-1, 2-2, 5-1, and 5-2 radios will be configured as stations. You should also make sure that all radios are set to a 20MHz channell width, and have AirMax turned off.

On the 2-0 and 5-0 machines, you'll set SSIDs for the networks. Ours are called 'The Free Network' and 'The Free Network 5GHz'. Once you've set the SSIDs on the Access Points, you'll lock the station radios to the MAC address of their respective APs.<< I believe the lock step is only on the nsm hardware in the 5.2 airos

At this point, you'll probably want to configure the router to grant a static lease to the radios. Ours are numbered 192.168.2.0-2 and 192.168.5.0-2 '' '''NOTE:''' do we want to encourage a separate vlan for management?''

As far as configuration goes, that's it! You're ready to put everything in the enclosure