How Passthrough Works; Serial Port Passthrough Using Telnet - VBrick 9000 Getting Started Manual

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How Passthrough Works

VBrick encoders are able to receive data on a particular TCP/IP port and transparently
output that data to a serial port. Conversely, any data input to a serial port can be passed
through to other devices connected to that TCP/IP port. Devices include other VBricks or
special applications connected to the appropriate TCP/IP port. This feature is called "Serial
Port Passthrough." COM is assigned port 4439. A typical application is for two VBricks
connected to each other's TCP/IP port 4439. In this case, characters typed into a terminal
program attached to one VBrick's serial port appear on a terminal program attached to the
other VBrick's serial port. In this case, the TCP/IP network serves as an intermediary
between the serial ports of two VBrick encoders.
You must select configuration settings to enable Serial Port Passthrough. First it is necessary
to decide if the encoder will be designated as an
connections. If configured as an
connection to other devices. When configured as a
connections from
VBrick neither initiates nor responds to Passthrough requests. If a VBrick is set to be an
, a
Initiator
Destination
when trying to establish a connection. The destination can be configured as follows:
Dedicated
Since the medium used for setting up Passthrough connections is a generic TCP/IP port, any
IP device that is prepared to connect to a VBrick's port can be considered as a Passthrough
Initiator. The VBrick Responder encoder will not know the exact nature of the device at the
other end of the port. For example, a generic Telnet client configured to connect to a VBrick
on port 4439 will cause a VBrick
the connection it accepted from the Telnet client. If the encoder is configured as an
and the
Responder
to try to establish a connection.A VBrick encoder must be configured as a
accept Passthrough connections initiated by other devices. In addition to the Initiator versus
Responder selection, the serial port operation settings must be entered to establish a
connection, baud rate, stop bits etc.
Note: Once a Passthrough connection is established between VBricks, the actual flow
of data is symmetric between the ends of the connection. That is, the behavior of the
serial ports with respect to typed characters will appear to be the same at both ends.

Serial Port Passthrough Using Telnet

As mentioned in the previous section, either serial port can be accessed over Ethernet via a
Telnet client. A VBrick encoder configured as a Passthrough Responder will accept a
connection request to TCP port 4439 (COM). The request can come from a Telnet client or
other PC application. Any data sent by the PC to TCP port 4439 will be delivered out of the
Encoder Getting Started
it will continuously attempt to setup a Passthrough
Initiator
encoders. It is possible to Disable Passthrough Mode, so that the
Initiator
must be selected. The encoder will use the destination information
Means that the initiator will attempt to make a Passthrough connection
to the configured Dedicated Destination and Port. The Dedicated
Destination can either be configured using IP Address or Host Name. If
set to Host Name, the Resolved Destination IP Address is derived from
the Host Name parameter. If set to IP Address, the Resolved
Destination IP Address is derived from the IP Address parameter.
Responder
encoder has Passthrough disabled or is not on the network it will continue
or
Initiator
Responder
it will accept up to 64
Responder
to start sending data from it's serial port, using
Streaming Video Basics
of Passthrough
Initiator
to
Responder
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