
CONFIGURATION
Page 80
User manual ref. 9017009-02
3G-GPRS-EDGE router IPL-G12
21.1.2 “Modbus client” gateway
This gateway allows to
connect a serial modbus
master to the serial
interface of the IPL-G12.
•
Select the modbus menu and then “modbus client” menu; enable the
“modbus client” gateway and set up the parameters as follows :
ASCII / RTU protocol
:
Select the right option
Inter-character gap
:
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.
TCP inactivity Timeout
:
Set the time the gateway will wait before disconnecting the TCP link if no
characters are detected.
TCP port number
:
Set the TCP port number the gateway has to use.
IP address
:
The modbus client gateway allows to transmit modbus requests from the
serial modbus master device to any modbus slave device, more precisely
called “ modbus server”, located on the IP network.