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98RK-1 & 9816 User’s Manual©

 

 

If you desire to connect with any module on the network, NUSS allows you to do that through its UDP/IP protocol commands (see Chapter 3).

All of this can become an invaluable source of information for troubleshooting your modules(s). See Chapter 5, Section 5.2 regarding updating the module firmware.

6.1.3.4Verifying Host TCP/IP Communications

At this point, the NetScannerSystem module should be configured to obtain its IP address through either Static or Dynamic IP assignment. The module’s IP address must be assigned and known in order to proceed. The host computer has also been configured for TCP/IP protocol and assigned an IP address compatible with the NetScannerSystem IP address. A simple method to verify proper operation is through the ping utility. This is a simple TCP/IP utility that is found in Windows® -based operating systems as well as most other TCP/IP packages. The ping utility simply sends a test packet to the specified IP address and waits for reply to be returned. The NetScannerSystem Ethernet modules are programmed to reply to these ping requests.

To run the ping utility from Windows®, follow these steps. Left click the Windows START button. Move the mouse pointer to 'RUN' and left click on it. At the prompt, type ‘ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx represents the IP address of the device to test. The IP address of an Ethernet NetScannerSystem module should be used. A small DOS window will appear as the ping application executes. The ping program will report either a reply was received or it failed to receive a reply. If the ping application reported receiving a reply, the host

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