User manual Version 1.2
ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server
GW21W-MAXI
Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc.
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1. INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................5
1.1 PACKAGING........................................................................................................................... 5
1. 2 APPLICATION CONNECTIVITY................................................................................................. 6
2. NOMENCLATURE AND SETTINGS ..........................................................8
2.1 NOMENCLATURE OF GW21W-MAXI COMPONENTS................................................................ 8
2.2 MODE SWITCH..................................................................................................................... 8
3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ....................................................................9
3.1 CONFIGURATION.................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 ASSIGNING A NEW IP ADDRESS BY ARP COMMAND ................................................................ 9
3.3 TCP/IP PORT NUMBER ....................................................................................................... 10
4. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION ...............................................................11
4.1 CONFIGURATION SET BY MONITOR.EXE UTILITY ..................................................................... 11
4.2 CONFIGURATION SET BY TELNET UTILITY .............................................................................. 11
4.3 CONFIGURATION SET BY HYPER TERMINAL CONSOLE UTILITY................................................. 23
4.4 CONFIGURATION SET BY WEB BROWSER............................................................................... 24
4.5 VIRTUAL COM MODE .......................................................................................................... 30
4.5.1 Setup of a Virtual COM driver .................................................................................. 30
4.5.2 Virtual COM communication..................................................................................... 31
5. SNMP SETUP ...........................................................................................35
5.1 SNMP NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM ........................................................................ 35
5.2 USING NETWORKVIEW AS AN EXAMPLE............................................................................... 35
6. START WRITING YOUR OWN APPLICATIONS......................................38
6.1 PREPARING THE SYSTEM .................................................................................................... 38
6.2 RUNNING THE SAMPLE PROGRAM........................................................................................ 38
TCPTEST in Visual Basic.................................................................................................. 38
TCPTEST2 in Visual C...................................................................................................... 39
7. DIAGNOSTICS .........................................................................................40
7.1 USE STANDARD TCP/IP UTILITY PING COMMAND ................................................................. 40
7.2 USE MONITOR.EXE CONFIGURATION UTILITY PROGRAM ........................................................ 40
7.3 USE TCPTEST.EXE OR TCPTEST2.EXE SAMPLE PROGRAM ............................................ 41
APPENDIX A: GW21W-MAXI SERIAL-ETHERNET SERVER
SPECIFICATIONS ......................................................................................42
A.1. HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS .............................................................................................. 42
A.2. SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS .............................................................................................. 43
