Transition Networks SDSFE31XX-100, RS-232-TO-100BASE-FX manual Serial Tunneling

SDSFE31xx-100 Industrial Device Server Transition Networks

Configuration software, continued

Serial port config submenu (continued)

Submenu Item	Description
DS/CR Modes (continued)	Converter Mode (CR) is used for serial tunneling
	across an Ethernet network between two serial ports
	to simulate a direct serial connection between the
	devices. See Figure 23.

Figure 23: Serial Tunneling

Packet Mode of Serial	Default is disabled. This will be the setting for the
Input (enable/disable)	serial data arriving at the serial port in a bit stream.
	Enable if serial data on the serial interface will be in
	packet mode.
Packet Mode Inter-Packet	This time value (in milliseconds) is the delimiter
Timeout	timeout value between serial packets. This only
	applies if packet mode of the serial input is enabled.
	The value will largely depend on the serial device
	connected to the Device Server or the field bus
	protocol used (i.e., Modbus, etc.).
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