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Atop ABLELink
Serial-Ethernet
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Server GW21W
User Manual
Version 2.3
Updated on 2004/08/18
Tel: 886-3-5508137
Fax: 886-3-5508131
www.atop.com.tw

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  • Page 1 Atop ABLELink Serial-Ethernet ® Server GW21W User Manual Version 2.3 Updated on 2004/08/18 Tel: 886-3-5508137 Fax: 886-3-5508131 www.atop.com.tw...

  • Page 2: Important Announcement

    The information contained in this document is the property of Atop Technologies, Inc. and is supplied for the sole purpose of the operation and maintenance of products of Atop Technologies, Inc. No part of this publication is to be used for any other purposes, and it is not to be reproduced, copied, disclosed, transmitted, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form, by any means, in whole or in part, without the prior express written consent of Atop Technologies, Inc.

  • Page 3: Fcc Warning

    Use only shielded cables to connect other devices to this equipment by RS-232 / RS-485 ports. Be cautioned that changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void your authority to operate the equipment. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 2/52...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    ....................... 42 ARDWARE PECIFICATIONS A.2. S ....................... 43 OFTWARE PECIFICATIONS A.3 C ......................43 ONNECTOR SSIGNMENTS A.3.1 COM Port..........................43 A.4 B /LED M ........................44 UZZER ESSAGE Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 3/52...
  • Page 5 YPE OF ORTS APPENDIX D CONFIGURATION UTILITY...........49 D.1 R ..........................49 UN THE UTILITY D.2 D ......................49 ETECT PERATIONAL EVICES D.3 C .......................... 49 ONFIGURE EVICES Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 4/52...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    With Atop GW21W, it is possible to communicate with a remote device in the Intranet environment or even in the Internet and thus, increases the communication distance dramatically. GW21W from Atop Technologies Inc. offers two RS-232/ RS-485 ports, one wireless Ethernet (IEEE802.11b, 11Mbps) and Watch-Dog Timer etc.

  • Page 7: Application Connectivity

    User manual Version 2.3 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW21W 1. 2 Application Connectivity Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 6/52...
  • Page 8 User manual Version 2.3 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW21W Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 7/52...

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    The following example uses ARP to assign a static IP address of GW21W using its MAC address. GW21W MAC address is printed on the label of the rear panel. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 10: Auto Ip

    COM2 respectively. After your application program connects to the TCP port 4660 (or 4661) of GW21W, data being sent to this TCP connection from your application program are transparent to the COM1 (or COM2) of GW21W. Vice versa is also true. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 9/52...

  • Page 11: Software Configuration

    Note: You can press the reset button of GW21W to reset the password to the default value. 3. After verifying the password, the following terminal screen appears. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 10/52...
  • Page 12 This page gives you the general information of GW21W including IP and MAC address, SNMP information, kernel and AP version, and connection status of the device. Networking Select “2” from “Input choice and enter (0~6):” to enter Networking page as following: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 11/52...
  • Page 13 “Please input new password” and the “Please verify new password” fields. Note: You can press the reset key of product to reset password to the default value. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 12/52...
  • Page 14 TCP server and the local port is 4660. IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, only source IP 10.0.0.154 can connect to GW21W. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 13/52...
  • Page 15 User manual Version 2.3 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW21W Note: IP filtering function is disabled if setting FILTER_IP to “0.0.0.0”. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 14/52...
  • Page 16 Configure GW21W as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 666 for example. Configure GW21W as UDP client, the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 666 for example. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 15/52...
  • Page 17 COM port alias name, set the baud rate and parity, determine number of data bit and stop bit, and decide if you want to use flow control and the type of flow control you want to use. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 18 TCP/IP Ethernet connection is broken, serial data collected from serial device will be kept in GW21W, once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, you can disable it if you wish. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 17/52...
  • Page 19 GW21W provides two ways of parameter setting as inter character timer and terminator. By default packet delimiter timer is 0 ms, you can change timer shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 18/52...
  • Page 20 Select “5” from “Input choice and enter (0~6):”, please refer “COM1 Setup” for the setup explanation. Accessing Wireless LAN setting Select “6” from “Input choice and enter (0~6):” the following screen appears. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 19/52...
  • Page 21 Wireless LAN Tran Transmission Rate You can set GW21W transmission rate as 1 Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps, or full auto based on 802.11 standard shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 20/52...
  • Page 22 GW21W Wireless LAN Ad-hoc channel You have to select the same channel for two wireless devices to talk to each other as indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 21/52...
  • Page 23 GW21W, it will not connect to either of them, in this case you have to specifically input the ESSID of one of the access points for connection. From telnet you can input ESSID as indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 24 For security reason, GW21W can set up to use WEP key of 40 bits or 128 bits to securely communicate in the wireless network. Telnet WEP key set up screen is as following: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 25: Configuration Set By Hyper Terminal Console Utility

    6. Once hyper terminal is connected, type in username and password then the following hyper terminal window appears. 7. The following configuration operations are totally the same as those configure by Telnet. 8. After finishing console settings, restart GW21W. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 24/52...

  • Page 26: Configuration Set By Web Browser

    “OK”. The user name is admin and password is null by default. 3. The following overview page appears. Change the password 1. Click on the “Security” link and the following screen appears. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 25/52...
  • Page 27 Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears. Fill in COM1 parameter information under COM1 field then click on “Save Configuration” button to save the changes. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 28 Configure GW21W as TCP server and the local port is 4660, IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, only source IP 10.0.29.11 can connect to GW21W. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 29 Configure GW21W as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.11, destination port is 4660. Configure GW21W as UDP mode. Local port is 666, destination IP is 10.0.29.11 and destination port is 4660. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 28/52...
  • Page 30 User manual Version 2.3 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW21W 2. Click on “Save Configuration” to save the changes. 3. If the update is successful, the following screen appears. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 29/52...

  • Page 31: Virtual Com Mode

    • Network: Microsoft TCP/IP networking software Applying to the serial server Cautions on Use Atop Virtual COM supports firmware AP v3.4 and above of ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Servers. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 30/52...

  • Page 32: Virtual Com Communication

    Virtual COM through Telnet by setting COM1 or COM2 as TCP server, and type in the local port number for COM1 or COM2, then enable Virtual COM as shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 33: Un Serial /Ip For Atop Program On Monitoring Pc

    4.2.1Run Serial/IP for ATOP program on monitoring PC In the Window Start Menu, select the Serial/IP for ATOP program group and select Serial/IP for ATOP Configuration. The configuration window is shown as following: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 32/52...
  • Page 34 If the Log display does not show errors, click the Use Settings button in the wizard, which makes the recommended settings effective and Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 35 For COM Port Options, the settings must match the COM port behavior expected by the PC application that will use this COM port. The Configuration Wizard will recommend a combination of settings. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 34/52...

  • Page 36: Snmp Setup

    1. After you have done the NetworkView installation, start NetworkView. 2. Click on the button to open a new file. The following screen appears, in the Addresses field, type in the IP address range to search. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 35/52...
  • Page 37 Company, SysLocation (Max 15 characters), SysName (Max 9 characters) and types etc. Note: The NetworkView tool is limited to information extracting and viewing only. To modify the configurations please use the web server, Telnet or monitor.exe configuration utilities. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 36/52...
  • Page 38 User manual Version 2.3 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW21W Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 37/52...

  • Page 39: Start Writing Your Own Applications

    For more information, please press Help in the program to get detail explanation. Note: Please be sure the Microsoft visual studio family software is installed on the computer. Otherwise the sample program will not run. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 38/52...

  • Page 40: Tcptest2 In Visual C

    You can also use modem to connect to the serial server. Command "AT\Od" sends standard AT command to the modem which in return responds with "OK\0D\0A" message to the host application. Always use '=' then Enter key to exit the program. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 39/52...

  • Page 41: Diagnostics

    The system is configured as a TCP Client and not yet connected. The system is configured as an UDP. The TCP Server and is connected. The TCP Client and is connected. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 40/52...

  • Page 42: Use Tcptest.exe Or Tcptest2.Exe Sample Program

    Use sample programs TCPTEST.EXE and TCPTEST2.EXE that comes with the product CD or diskette to check on the status of GW21W. Please refer to chapter 6.2 to run the sample programs. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 43: Appendix A: Gw21W Serial-Ethernet Server Specifications

    COM port1 COM port2 Power Requirement +12Vdc @ 350mA Temperature Operation: 0℃ to 50℃ Storage: -20℃ to 70℃ Humidity 20%~90% non-condensing Housing 140mm) x 82(mm) x 35(mm) Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 42/52...

  • Page 44: Software Specifications

    2 wire, Half Duplex 4 wire, Full Duplex DATA- RXD- N/A (reserved) TXD- SG (Signal Ground) SG (Signal Ground) SG (Signal Ground) DATA+ RXD+ N/A(reserved Atop TXD+ devices) Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 43/52...

  • Page 45: Buzzer/Led Message

    1.Jumper JP16 is opened to disable AP firmware in the flash memory. 2.Jumper JP16 is shorted, but no AP firmware in the flash memory. LED blinking (rate: 0.5Sec) AP firmware is running Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 44/52...

  • Page 46: Appendix B. Upgrade System Software

    The first line identifies the IP address of GW21W, the second line identifies the firmware (.Hex file) name to be downloaded. Input the user name and password credential, the new firmware will be downloaded. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 45/52...

  • Page 47: Critical Issues Of Upgrading

    Hex File Text Error Hex File Check-Sum Error Hex File Format Error Hex File End of Record Error GW21W handshaking problem GW21W ACK Start Address Error GW21W ACK Length Error Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 46/52...
  • Page 48 User manual Version 2.3 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW21W GW21W Response Command Error Configuration file Remote IP not found Open configuration file failure Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 47/52...

  • Page 49: Appendix C. Hardware Configuration

    3. Close the case and continue your operation. To find the physical locations of these jumpers, please refer to below component side of GW21W main board v1.4. Note: Monitor.exe utility can be used to demonstrate COM ports properties. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 48/52...

  • Page 50: Appendix D Configuration Utility

    2. Select the device you want to configure from the IP Address column, click on the Config button, a configuration window will popup as shown in Figure D2: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 51 Except for the default IP 255.255.255.255, other items (IPs) are read from the file “seg.cfg”. This field specifies a detecting IP range. It may be a designated IP or a broadcast IP. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 50/52...
  • Page 52 Indicates the AP version of the responding device. Model Indicates the model number of the responding device. This field is only available for monitor.exe version 2.0 and above. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 51/52...

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