Network Card User Manual
NPort IA5150/5250 Series User’s Manual  Web Console Configuration 
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Delimiter process 
Setting  Factory Default  Necessity 
Do nothing 
Delimiter + 1 
Delimiter + 2 
Strip Delimiter 
Do Nothing  Optional 
[Delimiter + 1] or [Delimiter + 2]: The data will be transmitted when an additional byte (for 
Delimiter +1), or an additional 2 bytes (for Delimiter +2) of data is received after receiving the 
Delimiter. 
[Strip Delimiter]: When the Delimiter is received, the Delimiter is deleted (i.e., stripped), and the 
remaining data is transmitted. 
[Do nothing]: The data will be transmitted when the Delimiter is received. 
Force transmit 
Setting  Factory Default  Necessity 
0 to 65535 ms  0 ms  Optional 
0: Disable the force transmit timeout. 
1 to 65535: Forces the NPort IA5150/5250’s TCP/IP protocol software to try to pack serial data 
received during the specified time into the same data frame. 
This parameter defines the time interval during which NPort IA5150/5250 fetches the serial data 
from its internal buffer. If data is incoming through the serial port, NPort IA5150/5250 stores the 
data in the internal buffer. NPort IA5150/5250 transmits data stored in the buffer via TCP/IP, but 
only if the internal buffer is full or if the Force transmit time interval reaches the time specified 
under Force transmit timeout. 
The optimal Force transmit timeout depends on your application, but it must be at least larger than 
one character interval within the specified baud rate. For example, assume that the serial port is set 
to 1200 bps, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity. In this case, the total number of bits needed to 
send a character is 10 bits, and the time required to transfer one character is 
( 10 (bits) / 1200 (bits/s) ) * 1000 (ms/s) = 8.3 ms. 
Therefore, you should set Force transmit timeout to be larger than 8.3 ms, so in this case, it must 
be greater than or equal to 10 ms. 
If the user wants to send a series of characters in the same packet, the serial device attached to 
NPort IA5150/5250 should send that series of characters during a time interval less than the Force 
transmit timeout for NPort IA5150/5250, and the total length of data must be less than or equal to 
NPort IA5150/5250’s internal buffer size. The serial communication buffer size for NPort 
IA5150/5250 is 1 KB per port. 
Destination IP address 1 
Setting  Factory Default  Necessity 
Begin: Empty 
End: Empty 
IP address range 
E.g., Begin: 192.168.1.1 
  End:  192.168.1.10 
Port: 4001 
Required 










