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Series’ COM ports. The benefit of using Virtual COM is that rewriting an existing COM program to
read IP packets is unnecessary. In other words, it is possible to use an ordinary serial (COM)
program. The conversion/virtualization of IP to COM is all done in the system driver transparently.
Figure shows SC10E16A1 Series in TCP Server mode with Virtual COM enabled.
Figure 65
Follow
Sec 4.1.1
to configure SC10E16A1 Series in TCP Server mode properly.
Click on the dropdown box of the
Mode
option and switch to “
Virtual COM
” to enabled Virtual
COM application in SC10E16A1 Series.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “
Save Configuration
” button to save the changes.
Configure Virtual COM in the Operating System. For Windows, refer to
Chapter 5
. For Linux,
refer to a separate manual included in the Linux driver zip file. Remember SC10E16A1 Series’
IP address and
Local Port
here in order to enter this information in Serial/IP Virtual COM’s
Control Panel later.
4.2.2 TCP Server Application: Enable RFC 2217
The underlying protocol of Virtual COM is based on RFC 2217, the Telnet COM Control Option.
Therefore, it is possible to use RFC 2217 with SC10E16A1 Series in the TCP Server mode. To do so,