User manual

User manual Version 1.1

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Ethernet-Serial Server GW51C-

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Contents

1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................5

1.1 PACKAGING........................................................................................................................... 5

1. 2 APPLICATION CONNECTIVITY................................................................................................. 6

2. NOMENCLATURE AND SETTINGS......................................................................8

2.1 NOMENCLATURE OF GW51C-

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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 AUTO IP..............................................................................................................................10

3.4 TCP/IP PORT NUMBER ....................................................................................................... 11

4. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION...........................................................................12

4.1 CONFIGURATION SET BY MONITOR.EXE UTILITY .....................................................................12

4.2 CONFIGURATION SET BY TELNET UTILITY ..............................................................................12

4.3 CONFIGURATION SET BY HYPER TERMINAL CONSOLE UTILITY ................................................ 22

4.4 CONFIGURATION SET BY WEB BROWSER............................................................................... 23

4.5 VIRTUAL COM MODE ..........................................................................................................29

4.5.1 Setup of a virtual COM driver ...................................................................................................29

4.5.2 Virtual COM communication .....................................................................................................30

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...............................................37

6.1 PREPARING THE SYSTEM..................................................................................................... 37

6.2 RUNNING THE SAMPLE PROGRAM........................................................................................ 37

6.2.1 TCPTEST in Visual Basic .........................................................................................................37

6.2.2 TCPTEST2 in Visual C .............................................................................................................38

7. DIAGNOSTICS .........................................................................................................40

7.1 USE STANDARD TCP/IP UTILITY PING COMMAND ................................................................. 40

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