NPort IA5150/5250 Series User’s Manual
Web Console Configuration
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Delimiter process
Setting
Factory Default
Necessity
Do nothing
Del 1
Del 2
Strip Delimiter
Do Nothing
Optional
[Del 1] or [Del 2]: The data will be transmitted when an additional byte (for
Del1), or an additional 2 bytes (for Del2) 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
