Advanced Settings - Tcp/Ip Settings & Mac Address - Brainboxes ES Series Product Manual

CTS is an incoming hardware handshaking line used for controlling the flow of data transmitted out of
the ES device serial port. Sometimes these signals may want to be ignored. By forcing CTS to True,
the Ethernet to Serial device will ignore those signals and always send data.
The CTS input acts like a road traffic light controlled by an output from the external serial peripheral
with which the ES device is communicating.
Whenever the external peripheral is ready to receive data it sets CTS input true i.e. the traffic light is
green and the ES device is free to transmit data. Whenever the external serial peripheral is not able to
receive data it sets CTS input false i.e. the traffic light is red and the ES device will not send any more
data. When the ES device has a green light to send data and the external peripheral changes it to
CTS false the ES device will stop transmitting within an absolute maximum of 3 characters depending
on how much data is in its output buffer.
This setting is especially helpful when CTS is not physically connected (i.e. in a 3 wire setup) and it is
not acceptable for the data flow to stop and start due to arbitrary variances on the unconnected signal
lines.
Advanced Settings – TCP/IP Settings & MAC Address
The TCP/IP Settings for the Brainboxes COM Port allow you to view the ES device's TCP/IP settings
and MAC.
To open Advanced Settings open Windows Device Manager, expand the 'Ports (COM &
LPT)' section and double click the Brainboxes Serial Port entry.
In the Serial Port Properties, select the 'Port Settings' tab and then click 'Advanced Settings'
Select the 'TCP/IP Settings' tab.
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