Peer to Peer v2.1
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Introduction
The Peer to Peer feature is a manufacture specific feature where point sharing is enabled on the network among
the following EasyIO controllers:
1.
FS Series controller
2.
FG+ series controller
3.
FW series controller
4.
FT series controller
The P2P service has 256 global registers with each register being a 4 byte register (32bit).
The P2P service creates a
cloud
like environment of global registers in the network that does not belong to any
specific controller.
The P2P service uses a broadcast protocol to update the registers.
The P2P service is only able to run within the same subnet of the network.
Any controller can write to any register or read any register.
If there are 2 controllers writing to the same register, then the concept of “last write wins” gets taken into account.
Below is a simple diagram displaying the concept of the Peer to Peer feature.
