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SET UP
21.1 Modbus menu
21.1.1 Modbus server gateway
This gateway allows to connect asynchronous modbus
slaves to the serial interface of the IPRS.
Select the modbus menu and then modbus server and enable the modbus server gateway and set
the parameters as follows :
“Port selection” parameter :
Select the serial port COM 1 or COM2.
If the modbus server gateway is assigned to one serial COM port, it cannot be assigned to the other
one.
« ASCII / RTU protocol » parameter:
Select the right option
“Proxi” parameter:
Enable the proxi option if you wish to avoid to frequent requests on the RS232-RS485 interface.
“Cache refreshment period” parameter:
Select the period at which the gateway will send request to the slaves PLC.
“Timeout waiting for the answer” parameter:
Set up the timeout the gateway has to wait for the answer of the modbus slave answer.
“Local retry” parameter :
Set up the number of times the gateway will repeat a request before declaring a failure.
“Inter-character gap” parameter :
Set up the maximum delay the gateway will have to wait between a received character of a modbus
answer frame and the following character of the same frame.
“Modbus slave address” parameter:
Choose “specified by the modbus TCP client” , if the address of the slave PLC must be decoded by
the gateway from the modbus TCP frame coming from the client.
Otherwise, specify the modbus address of the slave PLC; in that case only one slave can be
connected to the RS232 serial interface.
“TCP inactivity Timeout” parameter :
Set the time the gateway will wait before disconnecting the TCP link if no characters are detected.
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