
Chapter
5
Operating Instructions
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Ethernet gateways
The gateway’s proprietary network interface (e.g. Modbus TCP) runs in parallel and its con-
figuration or usage does not interact with the TCP/IP socket configuration as it happens
independently on separate Flexi Soft Designer pages.
Do not use the same output data set number for two different PLC connections or
TCP/IP sockets!
The output data set can be written to the Ethernet gateways in parallel by all communica-
tion interfaces or TCP/IP sockets (e.g. Modbus TCP and Ethernet TCP/IP), if they use the
same output data set number. In that case, the last message overrides data received
earlier.
The gateway processes the data of a Flexi Soft system and makes it available in different
compilations, the
data sets
. These data sets are available over the TCP/IP interface. For a
detailed description of the data sets please refer to section 3.3 “Data transmitted into the
network (input data sets)” on page 14.
In order to configure the Ethernet TCP/IP socket interface, perform the following steps:
Open the Flexi Soft Designer and load the hardware configuration including the gate-
way.
Click on the
Gateways
button above the main window and select the desired gateway or
double click on the desired gateway in the hardware configuration view to open the
gateway configuration dialog.
Click on
TCP/IP configuration
on the left hand menu. The following dialog appears:
WARNING
Fig. 16: TCP/IP configuration
dialog