User's Manual

User manual Version 1.2
ABLELink
®
Ethernet-Serial Server
GW21W-MAXI
Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
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1. INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................6
1.1 P
ACKAGING
........................................................................................................................... 6
1. 2 A
PPLICATION
C
ONNECTIVITY
................................................................................................. 7
2. NOMENCLATURE AND SETTINGS ..........................................................9
2.1 N
OMENCLATURE OF
GW21W-MAXI C
OMPONENTS
................................................................ 9
2.2 MODE S
WITCH
..................................................................................................................... 9
3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ..................................................................10
3.1 C
ONFIGURATION
.................................................................................................................. 10
3.2 A
SSIGNING A NEW
IP A
DDRESS BY
ARP
COMMAND
.............................................................. 10
3.3 TCP/IP P
ORT
N
UMBER
....................................................................................................... 11
4. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION ...............................................................12
4.1 C
ONFIGURATION SET BY MONITOR
.
EXE UTILITY
..................................................................... 12
4.2 C
ONFIGURATION SET BY
T
ELNET UTILITY
.............................................................................. 12
4.3 C
ONFIGURATION SET BY HYPER TERMINAL CONSOLE UTILITY
................................................. 24
4.4 C
ONFIGURATION SET BY WEB BROWSER
............................................................................... 25
4.5 V
IRTUAL
COM M
ODE
.......................................................................................................... 31
4.5.1 Setup of a virtual COM driver................................................................................... 31
4.5.2 Virtual COM communication..................................................................................... 32
5. SNMP SETUP ...........................................................................................37
5.1 SNMP N
ETWORK
M
ANAGEMENT
P
LATFORM
........................................................................ 37
5.2 U
SING
N
ETWORK
V
IEW
A
S
A
N
E
XAMPLE
............................................................................... 37
6. START WRITING YOUR OWN APPLICATIONS......................................40
6.1 P
REPARING
T
HE
S
YSTEM
.................................................................................................... 40
6.2 R
UNNING
T
HE
S
AMPLE
P
ROGRAM
........................................................................................ 40
TCPTEST in Visual Basic.................................................................................................. 40
TCPTEST2 in Visual C...................................................................................................... 41
7. DIAGNOSTICS .........................................................................................42
7.1 U
SE
S
TANDARD
TCP/IP U
TILITY PING
C
OMMAND
................................................................. 42
7.2 U
SE MONITOR
.
EXE
C
ONFIGURATION
U
TILITY
P
ROGRAM
........................................................ 42
7.3 U
SE
TCPTEST.EXE
OR
TCPTEST2.EXE S
AMPLE
P
ROGRAM
............................................ 43
APPENDIX A: GW21W-MAXI ETHERNET-SERIAL SERVER
SPECIFICATIONS
......................................................................................44
A.1. H
ARDWARE
S
PECIFICATIONS
.............................................................................................. 44
A.2. S
OFTWARE
S
PECIFICATIONS
.............................................................................................. 45