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Feature
General Description
Select Serial Port
X
X
Addressing/Port Settings
X
X
Receiving (incl. multicast)
X
X
Sending (incl. multicast)
X
X
Modem Replacement /
X
X
and
AT command interpreter
and
39.1.1
Serial Over IP introduction
The Serial Over IP application can be used in several ways, but the use cases can
be divided into four typical applications:
❼ Serial point-to-point
❼ Serial one-to-many (typically a Master-slaves application)
❼ PC access to remote serial devices.
❼ Modem replacement
39.1.1.1
Point-to-point
In this way two serial devices can communicate over an IP network. It can be set
up either as a client-server configuration using TCP, and as two peers using UDP.
Network
TCP-
server or
UDP Peer
TCP-client
or UDP
Peer
Serial
Device
Serial
Device
Figure 39.1: Serial Point-to-point link
39.1.1.2
One-to-many
This allows one serial device (typically a master) to communicate with multiple
serial devices using UDP transport. It can be set up as IP broadcast, IP multicast,
or via multiple IP unicast streams.
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