User's Manual

User manual Version 1.0
ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server
GW51W-MAXI
Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
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CONTENTS
CONTENT........................................................................................................ 3
1. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................... 5
1.1 PACKAGING.........................................................................................................................5
1. 2 APPLICATION CONNECTIVITY ...............................................................................................6
2. NOMENCLATURE AND SETTINGS........................................................... 8
2.1 NOMENCLATURE OF GW51W-MAXI COMPONENTS...............................................................8
2.2 MODE SWITCH...................................................................................................................8
3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................... 9
3.1 CONFIGURATION..................................................................................................................9
3.2 ASSIGNING A NEW IP ADDRESS BY ARP COMMAND ................................................................9
3.3 TCP/IP PORT NUMBER......................................................................................................10
4. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION................................................................ 11
4.1 CONFIGURATION SET BY MONITOR.EXE UTILITY....................................................................11
4.2 CONFIGURATION SET BY TELNET UTILITY.............................................................................11
4.3 CONFIGURATION SET BY HYPER TERMINAL CONSOLE UTILITY ................................................23
4.4 CONFIGURATION SET BY WEB BROWSER..............................................................................24
4.5 VIRTUAL COM MODE.........................................................................................................30
4.5.1 Setup of a Virtual COM driver................................................................................. 30
4.5.2 Virtual COM communication................................................................................... 31
5. SNMP SETUP ............................................................................................ 35
5.1 SNMP NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM .......................................................................35
5.2 USING NETWORKVIEW AS AN EXAMPLE..............................................................................35
6. START WRITING YOUR OWN APPLICATIONS...................................... 38
6.1 PREPARING THE SYSTEM...................................................................................................38
6.2 RUNNING THE SAMPLE PROGRAM ......................................................................................38
TCPTEST in Visual Basic................................................................................................ 38
TCPTEST2 in Visual C.................................................................................................... 39
7. DIAGNOSTICS .......................................................................................... 40
7.1 USE STANDARD TCP/IP UTILITY PING COMMAND ................................................................40
7.2 USE MONITOR.EXE CONFIGURATION UTILITY PROGRAM .......................................................40
7.3 USE TCPTEST.EXE OR TCPTEST2.EXE SAMPLE PROGRAM ............................................41