User's Manual

1-8 Millennial Net
Introduction
Figure 1-5. Direct serial connection to the MeshGate
In this topology, only one MeshScape API-based application running on the host PC can access
the MeshScape.
TCP/IP Connection to the MeshScape Serial Proxy Server
Figure 1-6 shows a PC that is running the MeshScape Serial Proxy Server and is connected to
the MeshGate Extra Long Range via the PC’s serial port.
A MeshScape API-based application functions as a serial proxy client by changing its lowest
level serial interface to a TCP/IP interface. The MeshScape API TCP/IP serial proxy client interface
opens a connection to the MeshScape Serial Proxy Server by connecting to its well advertised
port.
Local and remote MeshScape API-based applications including MeshScape Network Monitor
access the MeshScape data on the MeshGate Extra Long Range by connecting to the
MeshScape Serial Proxy Server at IP address 10.0.0.90 on port 45090.
Although Figure 1-6 does not show any MeshScape API-based applications running on the PC,
any number of MeshScape API-based applications could be running on the same PC host as the
MeshScape Serial Proxy Server. The MeshScape Serial Proxy Server supports up to ten client
connections.
RS-232 Cable
MeshGate
MeshScape Network Monitor
Host PC