User`s manual

User’s Manual Version 1.2

Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server

STE-601C

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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 STE-601C 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...........................................................................................................28

4.5.1 Setup of a virtual COM driver ...................................................................................................28

4.5.2 Virtual COM communication.....................................................................................................29

5. SNMP SETUP...........................................................................................................34

SNMP NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM ..............................................................................34

6. START WRITING YOUR OWN APPLICATIONS...............................................35

PREPARING THE SYSTEM...........................................................................................................35

7. DIAGNOSTICS.........................................................................................................36

7.1 USE STANDARD TCP/IP UTILITY PING COMMAND..................................................................36

7.2 USE MONITOR.EXE CONFIGURATION UTILITY PROGRAM ........................................................36

APPENDIX A: STE-601C ETHERNET-SERIAL SERVER SPECIFICATIONS 38

A.1. HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS ..............................................................................................38