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STE-601C
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  • Page 1 Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C User’s Manual Version 1.3...
  • Page 2 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C MPORTANT NNOUNCEMENT The information contained in this document is the property of Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. and is supplied for the sole purpose of operation and maintenance of products of Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. No part of this...
  • Page 3 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C This document is intended to provide customers with brief descriptions on the product and to assist customers to get started. For detail information and operations of the product, please refer to this manual or the CD attached.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    ..............36 TANDARD TILITY PING OMMAND 7.2 U ............36 SE MONITOR ONFIGURATION TILITY ROGRAM APPENDIX A: STE-601C ETHERNET-SERIAL SERVER SPECIFICATIONS 38 A.1. H ....................38 ARDWARE PECIFICATIONS Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. - 3 -...
  • Page 5 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C A.2. S ....................39 OFTWARE PECIFICATIONS A.3 C ..................39 ONNECTOR SSIGNMENTS A.3.1 COM Port..........................39 A.3.2 Ethernet Port (RJ-45) .......................41 A.3.3 Power terminal block connector ....................42 A.4 B /LED M ...................... 42...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    RS-232/RS-485 serial communication has its limitations. For one, it is hard to transfer data through a long distance. With STE-601C, 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.

  • Page 7: Application Connectivity

    User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C 1. 2 Application Connectivity Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. - 6 -...
  • Page 8 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. - 7 -...

  • Page 9: Nomenclature And Settings

    2.2 MODE Switch This sets or initializes the operating mode for the STE-601C. The factory default setting is that Switch 1 (SW1) and Switch 2 (SW2) are set to OFF. You can use the Mode switch to change the operating mode from the factory default settings to your desired mode.

  • Page 10: Hardware Installation

    3.2 Assigning a new IP Address by ARP command ARP –s is used to assign a static IP address of STE-601C and add this static entries to the ARP cache of the computer, when TCP/IP packet with destination port number 1 is sent to STE-601C, it causes the device to check its MAC address with IP address, once STE-601C finds those two unmatched, it will reboot and change to the new IP address which was set by ARP –s command.

  • Page 11: Auto Ip

    STE-601C Notes: 1. Arp command can only be used to set a static IP address of STE-601C using system default user name admin and default password null. 2. Only TCP/IP packet with destination port number 1 will lead STE-601C to reboot and change the IP address.

  • Page 12: Tcp/Ip Port Number

    STE-601C 3.4 TCP/IP Port Number Port number 4660 is default of STE-601C and is associated with serial port COM1 respectively. After your application program connects to the TCP port 4660 of STE-601C, data being sent to this TCP connection from your application program are transparent to the COM1 of STE-601C. Vice versa is also true.

  • Page 13: Software Configuration

    STE-601C. As you can see from the following picture, you can change IP address, gateway IP address, subnet mask, user ID and password of STE-601C from the utility. For more details of the utility please refer to Appendix-D Configuration Utility.
  • Page 14 STE-601C NOTE: 1. If STE-601C does not receive any command within 1 minute, Telnet will be terminated automatically. 2. The changes of networking parameters will take effect only when you exit and restart STE-601C. 3. Select “1” from “Input choice and enter (0~4):” to enter overview page as following: Copyright ©...
  • Page 15 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C This page gives you the general information of STE-601C 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 (0~4):” to enter Networking page as following: Copyright ©...
  • Page 16 This page allows you to change network settings of the device including IP address, subnet mask, gateway IP address and SNMP information of STE-601C. Please notice that any setting change made on this page won’t take effect until you restart the device.
  • Page 17 LINK1 Setup Type 1 from “Input choice and enter (1~4):” of COM1, the following screen appears. Configure STE-601C as TCP server and the local port is 4660. IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, only source IP 10.0.0.154 can connect to STE-601C.
  • Page 18 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Configure STE-601C as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.123, destination port is 1234. Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. - 17 -...
  • Page 19 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Configure STE-601C as UDP client, the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 1234. COM port setting Type 2 from “Input choice and enter (1~4):” of COM1, the following screen appears, you can then give the 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.
  • Page 20 TCP/IP Ethernet connection is broken, serial data collected from serial device will be kept in STE-601C, once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, you can disable it if you wish.
  • Page 21 Packet delimiter is a way of controlling packets within serial communication. It can prevent packets from being cut thus keep the packets complete. STE-601C provides two ways of parameter setting as inter character timer and terminator. By default packet delimiter timer is 1 ms, you can change timer shown in the following figure: Copyright ©...
  • Page 22 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C You can also choose character pattern as the packet delimiter indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. - 21 -...

  • Page 23: Configuration Set By Hyper Terminal Console Utility

    7. The following configuration operations are totally the same as those by Telnet. 8. After finishing console settings, power off STE-601C, put SW1 and SW2 back to the previous setting. Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Page 24: Configuration Set By Web Browser

    Log in to the system 1. From web browser, type in the IP address of STE-601C in the URL. Example: http://10.0.50.100 2. The following authentication screen appears. Please type in user name and password then click on OK.
  • Page 25 Enable SNMP by checking “Enable”, fill in network identification information under SNMP field and click on the “Save Configuration” button to save the changes, please notice that the setting will not become effective until you restart STE-601C. Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc.
  • Page 26 1. Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears, you can configure STE-601C as transparent mode by default. Configure STE-601C 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 STE-601C.
  • Page 27 Configure STE-601C as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.11, destination port is 4660. Pair Connection In the case of the serial connection is established with two or more STE-601C to send data over Ethernet network, i.e. pair connection mode, you can choose “pair connection” which is indicated in the following figure to cope with any type of serial device.
  • Page 28 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Configure STE-601C as UDP mode. Local port is 4660, destination IP is 10.0.29.254 and destination port is 1234. 2. Click on “Save Configuration” to save the changes. 3. If the update is successful, the following screen appears.

  • Page 29: Virtual Com Mode

    STE-601C via the LAN. By creating virtual COM ports on the PC, Virtual COM redirects the communications from the virtual COM ports to an IP address and port number on a STE-601C that connects the serial line device to the network. The following figure is Virtual COM connection diagram.

  • Page 30: Virtual Com Communication

    4.5.2.1 Enable Virtual COM on STE-601C From web browser access to STE-601C by typing its IP address, click on COM1 link to access COM1 page, on the top half of the page click on “TCP Server” and enable Virtual COM by putting a check in front of the “Enable”...
  • Page 31 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C For the users of Mitsubishi A-Series PLC, it may be recommended to enable “Mitsubishi A-Series PLC” in the case of some connection problems occurred. Or you can enable Virtual COM through telnet configuration by setting COM1 as TCP server, and type in the Copyright ©...
  • Page 32 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C local port number for COM1, then enable virtual COM as shown in the following figure: 4.5.2.2 Run Serial/IP program on monitoring PC In the Window Start Menu, select the Serial/IP program group and select Serial/IP Configuration. The configuration window is shown as following: Copyright ©...
  • Page 33 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C At right is a sample Virtual COM Control Panel window. At the left is the list of the COM ports that you have selected (in the Select Ports window) for use by the Virtual COM Redirector.
  • Page 34 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C For Connection Protocol, the setting must match the TCP/IP protocol that the serial server supports. The Configuration Wizard is usually able to determine the correct setting. For COM Port Options, the settings must match the COM port behavior expected by the PC application that will use this COM port.

  • Page 35: Snmp Setup

    5. SNMP Setup SNMP Network Management Platform STE-601C is an SNMP device that allows many popular SNMP Network management platforms such as HP OpenView and SunNet Manager to conduct monitoring on the device. Depending on the network management tools you are using, device (STE-601C) information can be collected from running the management tools including IP address, DNS name, system descriptions and NIC information etc.

  • Page 36: Start Writing Your Own Applications

    (see chapter 3 Hardware Installation section). 3. Configure STE-601C as TCP Server using default TCP port number 4660. 4. The host (PC) application program must be configured as a TCP client and connects to STE-601C with designated TCP port number 4660 for COM1.

  • Page 37: Diagnostics

    Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C 7. Diagnostics There are several ways you can check on the status and availability of STE-601C. 7.1 Use Standard TCP/IP Utility ping Command From Windows Start menu, select Run and type in “ping <TCP Server IP address>”.
  • Page 38 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C For example, ‘s’ means that COM1 is server mode and is not connected. Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. - 37 -...

  • Page 39: S Pecifications

    User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C STE-601C Appendix A: Ethernet-Serial Server Specifications A.1. Hardware Specifications Specifications 16-bit Embedded CPU 100MHz Flash Memory 512K Bytes SDRAM 512K Bytes EEPROM 512 Bytes Host Communication IEEE802.3 base band TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, HTTP, Telnet, ARP, BOOTP, DHCP...

  • Page 40: Software Specifications

    User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C A.2. Software Specifications Item Specifications Protocol TCP, UDP, ARP, ICMP, SNMP, HTTP, Telnet, BOOTP,DHCP Configuration Configuration information for both TCP/IP and serial ports is kept in the EEPROM. Configuration utilities of Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/2003 are provided for configuring settings.
  • Page 41 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Aaxeon provides Mini DIN connector to DB9 connector cable, the pin assignments of DB9 connector is shown in the following table: RS-232 RS-485 RS-485/422 Pin# Full Duplex 2 wire, Half Duplex 4 wire, Full Duplex...

  • Page 42: Ethernet Port (Rj-45)

    User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Terminal Block Connector RS485 only uses RTS/R- and TxD/R+ for data communication while RS232 or RS422 uses RTS/R-, TxD/R+, CTS/T- and RxD/T+ for communicating data. A.3.2 Ethernet Port (RJ-45) 1. Category 5 UTP cable, 8 core wire.

  • Page 43: Power Terminal Block Connector

    User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C You can choose either 568A or 568B definition. If you want to make a crossover cable, you should use 568A and 568B definition respectively in each terminal of a UTP cable. A.3.3 Power terminal block connector A.4 Buzzer/LED Message...

  • Page 44: Com Port Led

    User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C A.4.3 COM Port LED Message Description LED off No data is transmitting on COM port LED on blinking state Data is transmitting on COM port Table 3. COM Port LED Message A.4.4 RUN LED...

  • Page 45: Appendix B. Upgrade System Software

    Remote_IP 10.0.50.100 Load U51cmap.hex The first line identifies the IP address of STE-601C, 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. STE-601C will automatically restart each time the firmware is successfully downloaded.

  • Page 46: Critical Issues Of Upgrading

    2. If STE-601C does not receive any upgrading data within 30 seconds, STE-601C will restart automatically and the system remains intact. 3. After the upgrading process finishes, STE-601C will program the flash memory and buzzer beeps 6 times then restarts. Normally, it takes around 10 seconds to complete the programming process. If an error occurs during the programming process, STE-601C will clear the corresponding memory and the system remains intact of what it was.
  • Page 47 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Remote IP not found Configuration file Open configuration file failure Copyright © 2007 Aaxeon Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. - 46 -...

  • Page 48: Appendix C. Hardware Configuration

    Appendix C. Hardware Configuration C.1 Disable System Firmware The AP (application program) firmware of STE-601C can be disabled. This function is used in the situation that you downloaded a wrong version of firmware that caused the system crashed. To disable the current version of firmware and prevent it from executing, please do the followings: 1.

  • Page 49: Appendix D Configuration Utility

    Appendix D Configuration Utility The configuration utility monitor.exe comes with the product CD or diskette is the main utility program to demonstrate and configure STE-601C’s settings. D.1 Run the utility Start the program under Windows 95/98/NT/2000 environment and the following window appears.
  • Page 50 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C Figure D2. Configuration dialog box 3. After you click the “Configure Now” button, the target device will return an ACK message indicating the modification is successful as shown in the following: Please note monitor.exe version 2.4 and above requires gw21le.dll library to function properly.
  • Page 51 User’s Manual Version 1.2 Devolinx Serial-Ethernet Server STE-601C The following table lists the functional descriptions for all the fields. Field Name Field Descriptions Broadcast IP 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.

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