The command is available in the contextual menu if a gateway entry is selected in the tab.
The command opens the dialog box, where you can configure the block driver for the local gateway. This is an alternative way to manually editing the configuration file gateway.cfg.
The configuration tree displayed in this dialog box corresponds to the content of the currently valid configuration file gateway.cfg. Modifications in the dialog box, confirmed by clicking will affect an immediate update of the CFG file.
You can add and remove block drivers () and appropriate configuration settings () by clicking the buttons and when the respective entry is selected. You can change the position of an interface in the configuration tree by clicking the and buttons. A description is displayed in the lower part of the dialog box for the selected entry.
You can add the drivers listed below to the configuration tree by executing the command.
By executing the command , you can add an additional setting to the selected interface. For editing its value, select it in the column, and press the SPACE bar to open an edit frame.
Possible block drivers
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Serial port on the device, for example, for exchanging data following the RS-232 standard on a dedicated COM port. |
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: symbolic description : physical serial port used for this interface, for example, COM 5 on a Windows PC
: if enabled (default=disabled), the parameter will be evaluated; the 2 devices communicating via serial interface will auto-negotiate their addresses before they start exchanging messages; if the addresses of the communicating devices are equal, they will be renegotiated; the setting is useful if the local addresses cannot be set explicitly, for example, for physically separated devices : possible values 1..10; default = current port value; will only be evaluated if is enabled |
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Ethernet interface to be used for exchanging data using UDP (User Datagram Protocol) |
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: symbolic description : port number to be used for communication; port indices are in the range 0...3; they are mapped to the following Ethernet port: 1740...1743 : default = 127.0.0.1; this setting can be useful to set an explicit interface if there is more than one network interface on the device; example: 127.0.0.1 stands for any local network interface, also referred to as localhost; any other address, for example, 10.27.7.72, represents a real IP address that must be available on the device : default = 255.255.255.0; example: 255.255.252.0; this setting can be useful to set an explicit interface if there is more than one network interface on the device; : default = 127.0.0.1; example: 10.13.42.240; establishes a logical point-to-point connection between the UDP interface and the node indicated by this address; effects that the UDP interface will communicate with this node exclusively and no more broadcasts will be sent within this network |
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Ethernet interface to be used for exchanging data using the Transmission Control Protocol. |
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, : see above: : default = 0; this setting sets the timespan in seconds after which TCP connections will be closed in case no data are exchanged |
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Shared memory driver |
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: symbolic description : default = -1 (=no forced address); example: 42; means that the driver must use the fix address specified here and that addresses are free assigned in the range of 0...255; this setting can be useful if there is more than just one shared memory driver activated in the configuration |