Serial Port Profiles

This entry is disabled since Direction is set to Disabled.

General Tab Field Descriptions

Configure the following parameters:

Listen for

The IOLAN will listen for UDP packets on the specified port.

connections on

Default: 1000+<port-number> (for example, 10001 for serial port 1)

UDP port

 

Direction

The direction in which information is received or relayed:

 

z Disabled—UDP service not enabled.

 

z LAN to Serial—This setting will allow UDP data to be received from one

 

or more hosts on the LAN and forwarded to the serial device attached to

 

this serial port.

 

z Serial to LAN—This setting will allow data originating from the serial

 

device attached to this serial port to be sent to one or more hosts on the

 

LAN using UDP datagrams.

 

z Both—Allows for data to flow from the serial device to the LAN and from

 

the LAN to the serial device.

 

Default: Both for UDP 1 and Disabled for all other UDP ranges

Start IP Address

The first host IP address in the range of IP addresses (for IPv4 or IPv6) that the

 

IOLAN will listen for messages from and/or send messages to.

 

Field Format: IPv4 or IPv6 address

End IP Address

The last host IP address in the range of IP addresses (for IPv4, not supported

 

for IPv6) that the IOLAN will listen for messages from and/or send messages

 

to.

 

Field Format: IPv4 address

UDP Port

Determines how the IOLAN’s UDP port that will send/receive UDP messages

 

is defined:

 

z Auto Learn—The IOLAN will only listen to the first port that it receives a

 

UDP packet from. Applicable when Direction is set to LAN to Serial or

 

Both.

 

z Any Port—The IOLAN will receive messages from any port sending UDP

 

packets. Applicable when Direction is set to LAN to Serial.

 

z Port—The port that the IOLAN will use to relay messages to

 

servers/hosts. This option works with any Direction except Disabled. The

 

IOLAN will listen for UDP packets on the port configured by the Listen

 

for connections on UDP port parameter.

 

Default: Auto Learn

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