User manual

User manual Version 1.1
ABLELink
Serial-Ethernet Server
GW51W-
MAXI
Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc.
CONTENTS
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 AUTO IP..............................................................................................................................10
3.4 TCP/IP PORT NUMBER ....................................................................................................... 11
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 ................................................. 29
4.4 CONFIGURATION SET BY WEB BROWSER ...............................................................................31
4.5 VIRTUAL COM MODE ..........................................................................................................38
4.5.1 Setup of a Virtual COM driver .................................................................................. 38
4.5.2 Virtual COM communication..................................................................................... 39
5. SNMP SETUP....................................................................................42
5.1 SNMP NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM ........................................................................ 42
5.2 USING NETWORKVIEW AS AN EXAMPLE ............................................................................... 43
6. START WRITING YOUR OWN APPLICATIONS ..............................45
6.1 PREPARING THE SYSTEM..................................................................................................... 45
6.2 RUNNING THE SAMPLE PROGRAM........................................................................................ 45
6.2.1 TCPTEST in Visual Basic......................................................................................... 45
6.2.2 TCPTEST2 in Visual C............................................................................................. 46
7. DIAGNOSTICS ..................................................................................47
7.1 USE STANDARD TCP/IP UTILITY PING COMMAND ................................................................. 47
7.2 USE MONITOR.EXE CONFIGURATION UTILITY PROGRAM ........................................................ 47
7.3 USE TCPTEST.EXE OR TCPTEST2.EXE SAMPLE PROGRAM ............................................ 48
APPENDIX A: GW51W-
MAXI
SERIAL-ETHERNET SERVER
SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................49
A.1. HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS .............................................................................................. 49
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