Configuring Communications

The communications base to which the terminal is registered can communicate with the Moneris Host over Ethernet or dial communication.

If you have more than one handheld terminal registered to a communications base, it must use Ethernet communication in order to process transactions from more than one of the handhelds at a time.

If you have only one handheld terminal registered to a communications base, it can use dial communication as the default rather than the backup, i.e. Ethernet communication is not required.

Click on the method of communication your terminal will use and follow the configuration instructions:

a.  Ethernet Communication (select one as appropriate to your setup):

Before you set up your terminal to communicate with the Moneris host over high-speed Ethernet, please review the Moneris IP Readiness Checklist (available at moneris.com/checklist) and ensure that your Ethernet service and your Ethernet network are ready to support your terminal.

• Public Internet - Dynamic IMPORTANT: If you are using dynamic IP over a public network, no configuration is required since this is the terminal's default method of communication.

• Private Internet - Dynamic

• Public Internet - Static

• Private Internet - Static

Note: To reconfigure a static IP-enabled base to use dynamic IP when multiple terminals are registered to the base...

Note: To change the static parameters for a static IP-enabled base that has multiple terminals registered to it... To reconfigure a dynamic IP-enabled base to use static IP when multiple terminals registered to the base...

b.  Dial Communication and dial backup (select one as appropriate to your set up)

·         Dial communication:  Set up dial as your default method of communication.

·         Dial backup:  If Ethernet communication goes down during a transaction, the terminal/base will use dial communication to perform the transaction  (if dial backup is available).  The terminal/base will then attempt to use Ethernet communication for the next transaction.

To determine whether the hardware is communicating correctly, check the communications status icons and messages.

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