Appendix B.  Status Table and Settings 
 
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Table 118. CR800 Settings 
Settings are accessed through the Campbell Scientific Device Configuration Utility (DevConfig) via direct-serial and IP connections, or through 
PakBusGraph via most CR800 supported telecommunications options. 
Setting Description Default Entry 
Neighbors Allowed 
 
RS232 
ME 
SDC7 
SDC8 
SDC10 
SDC11 
COM1 
COM2 
 
 
This setting specifies, for a given port, the explicit list of PakBus® node addresses that 
the CR800 will accept as neighbors. If the list is empty (the default condition), any node 
is accepted as a neighbor. This setting will not effect the acceptance of a neighbor if that 
neighbor's address is greater than 3999. The formal syntax for this setting follows: 
neighbor    := { "(" range-begin "," range-end ")" }. 
range-begin := pakbus-address. ; 
range-end   := pakbus-address. 
pakbus-address := number. ; 0 < number < 4000 
If more than 10 neighbors are in the allowed list and the beacon interval is 0, the beacon 
interval is changed to 60 seconds and beaconing is used for neighbor discovery instead 
of directed hello requests that consume comms memory. 
 
Central Routers 
This setting specifies a list of up to eight PakBus
®
 addresses for routers that are able to 
work as central routers. By specifying a non-empty list for this setting, the CR800 is 
configured as a branch router meaning that it will not be required to keep track of 
neighbors of any routers except those in its own branch. Configured in this fashion, the 
CR800 will ignore any neighbor lists received from addresses in the central routers 
setting and will forward any messages that it receives to the nearest default router if it 
does not have the destination address for those messages in its routing table. 
Each entry in this list is expected to be formatted with a comma separating individual 
values.