NETLink
®
Switch
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10
Troubleshooting
The points described here show some typical errors that can occur
in day-to-day work with the NETLink
®
Switch.
If any condition during operation is not described here and this
manual does not provide any information on how to remedy it,
the support of Systeme Helmholz GmbH is available to help you.
Q:
I don’t know the IP address of my computer.
A:
Enter the command ‘
ipconfig
’ after the prompt to show the
configuration of the Ethernet interfaces of your computer.
Q:
My computer has a firewall. Which ports must I release?
A:
The NETLink-S7-NET driver communicates with the NETLink
®
Switch
via TCP port 7777.
UDP ports 25342 and 25343 are also used to search for the NET-
Link
®
Switch devices.
Please release at least port 7777 so that the basic functionality of
the driver is available.
If you use the RFC1006 functionality (also known as S7-TCP/IP),
port 102 must also be released.
ATTENTION: If you want to use the driver option ‘
Internet teleser-
vice
’ (see Section 5.2.1), the specific ports configured there must
also be released because this port will be used instead port 7777.
Q:
Both the configuration tool and the web interface ask me for a
password and a user name. But I have never assigned a user name
or password.
A:
If no user name and/or password were/are specified, the de-
fault user name
‘NETLink Switch’
and the default password ‘
admin
’
are applied.
Q:
Once the configured PROFIBUS slaves have been added on my
CPU, communication between NETLink
®
Switch and STEP7 be-
comes markedly slower.
A:
The user can influence the allocation of
‘cycle load due to com-
munication [%]’
under object properties of the CPU in the hard-
ware configuration. The default value is 20 %.
Q:
I get an error message when I access the controller.
i
The default user name is
“NETLink Switch”
The default password
is ‘admin.’