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AAxeon STW-602C User Manual

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STW-602C
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  • Page 1 Wireless Serial-Ethernet Server STW-602C User’s Manual Version 1.1...

  • Page 2: Important Announcement

    Aaxeon Technologies, LLC. Published by...

  • Page 3: Fcc Warning

    IEEE 802.11b/g operation of this product in the U.S.A. is firmware-limited to channels 1 through 11. UL NOTICE FOR POWER SUPPLIER The STW-602C product is intended to be supplied by a Listed Power Unit marked with “LPS”, “Limited Power Source” or “Class 2” and output rate 9~48VDC, 1.0A minimum. Or, use the recommended power...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ....................6 4.2. Connectivity Topology ........................6 4.2.1. Virtual COM Mode ........................6 4.2.2. Tunneling Mode ........................8 Configure STW-602C by web interface .................... 10 5.1. Login to System ..........................10 5.2. General Information ........................10 5.3. Network Configuration ........................13 5.3.1.
  • Page 5 5.6.2. Configure WLAN Region ....................... 23 5.6.3. Change the Password ......................23 5.6.4. Restoring Factory Default ...................... 24 5.6.5. Restart System ........................24 Telnet Configuration .......................... 25 6.1. General Information ........................26 6.2. Networking Configuration......................27 6.2.1. LAN Settings .......................... 28 6.2.2.

  • Page 6: Introduction

    RS-232/RS-485 serial communication has its limitations. For instance, it is hard to transfer data through a long distance. With the STW-602C, 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: Getting Started

    RUN LED will blink if STW-602C functions normally. For LED Status sees Appendix D4 Use SerialManager configuration utility on the product CD to check the status of STW-602C. If it starts up successfully, User shall find the IP and MAC address of STW-602C. User can change IP address, gateway IP address and subnet mask networking parameters of STW-602C according to user networking configurations.

  • Page 8: Software Setup

    Software Setup Now the STW-602C hardware is installed and power is on, network IP configuration will be set in this section. 2.5. Default Settings The STW-602C has two IP addresses one for Ethernet interface and another one for wireless network interface. These default settings are shown from under information...

  • Page 9: Configure Ip By Serialmanager Utility

    ARP (address resolution protocol) commands can be used to assign a static IP address on STW-602C using its hardware MAC (media access control) address. The MAC address"0060E9-xxxxxx" is printed on the rear side of STW-602C. The following figure shows how to use ARP command on MS-DOS command prompt window.

  • Page 10: Configure Ip By Web Server

    2.6.4. Auto IP with DHCP DHCP server will automatically supply an IP address gateway address, and subnet mask to STW-602C. By default, the DHCP client function on STW-602C is disabled, user can activate the DHCP functions by the following steps ...

  • Page 11: Application Connectivity

    TCP Server Mode and TCP Client Mode. 3.1.2. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) UDP is a faster datagram delivery protocol. User can configure STW-602C to work in the UDP mode. UDP is connectionless protocol and can transmit multicast data to/from a serial device to one/multiple host computer.
  • Page 12 TCP Server in Virtual COM Mode STW-602C can be configured in the TCP server mode (PC as a client) with a unique IP and Port number, and STW-602C waits passively for the PC to establish a connection to. After the connection is established, PC can communicate to serial devices through STW-602C.

  • Page 13: Tunneling Mode

    User can configure STW-602C to be as TCP Client for example, from Fig. 7. PC, as a server, has IP address 10.0.0.100 and listening on port 1000. Each STW-602C, connected with serial device, configured as TCP client mode with destination IP address 10.0.0.100 and the destination port 1000, and the IP filter is disabled (by default).
  • Page 14 Fig 10. UDP Link in Tunneling mode Configure STW-602C in UDP Mode Use one of the three configuration methods (Telnet, Web, and console). User can configure STW-602C to UDP mode. In UDP mode, STW-602C can be configured to communicate to more than one node (Multicasting).

  • Page 15: Configure Stw-602C By Web Interface

    User has to assign IP address to STW-602C before working on web configuration operations. Please refer section 3.2 for more detail. 4.1. Login to System Open one of the web browsers, ex. Microsoft IE or Firefox etc. Enter the IP address of STW-602C on the URL. Example: http://10.0.50.100 http://user-device-IP The following authentication screen shall appear.
  • Page 16 Fig 13. Overview for system information by Web Interface Device Information STW-602C’s system information includes model name、 Device Name、 Kernel version and AP version. The information is read only and is attributed from another setting page or system status...
  • Page 17 Fig 15. Network Information from Overview web page Serial Information STW-602C COM1 (COM2) information includes UART mode, link mode, baud rate, parity, data bits, stop bits, flow control and link status. The COM1 (COM2) information is read only and is attributed from Serial settings of COM1 or COM2 Port of STW-602C.

  • Page 18: Network Configuration

    4.3. Network Configurations There are four items allowed to change on Network page, included LAN, WLAN, DNS and SNMP Information. Fig 17. Network information by Web page...

  • Page 19: Lan Settings

    4.3.1. LAN Settings Operation: [Network]  [LAN Setting] Click on the “Network” link and the following screen shall appear. Fill in IP information on TCP/IP field. Alternatively, click on DHCP to automatically obtain IP address, gateway and subnet mask information. Fig 18.

  • Page 20: Wireless Configuration

    Click on the “Network” link and the following screen shall appear. Check on “Enabling Settings” field. Fill in desired SysName、 SysLocation、 SysContact information on SNMP Settings fields. The changes of SNMP Settings will take effect only after the STW-602C restarted. Fig 21. SNMP Setting from Network web page 4.4.

  • Page 21: Wireless Detail Settings

    Encryption of the access point that STW-602C want to connect to. The advanced wireless settings also include roaming threshold. User can configure roaming signal threshold for the STW-602C. STW-602C will change to the stronger wireless signal access point, if the original access point’s signal is less than roaming threshold.
  • Page 22 Fig 24. Open Authorization and no Encryption Attach access point with WEP  Topology: Infrastructure  Channel: Auto-assignment from Access point  Authentication: share  Encryption: WEP  WEP Key1~4: Hexadecimal or ASCII / 64 or 128bit / <WEP Key> Fig 25.

  • Page 23: Com Port Configuration

     Authentication: WPA-PSK  Encryption: TKIP or AES  WPA-PSK: 8~ 63 Characters Fig 26. WPA-PSK Authorization and TKIP Encryption 4.5. COM Port Configuration Here User can configure Serial parameters, include alias, baud rate, parity, data bit and type of flow control defined by user.

  • Page 24: Link Mode Settings

    TCP Server mode is default Link mode of Serial Settings, and it can wait for connecting requirement from remote host PC which running “serial-to IP” utility or setting STW-602Cs in tunneling mode. User has to configure listening port to allow client establish connection to this server. Default port number of STW-602C is 4660.

  • Page 25: Tcp Client Mode

    Fig 29. TCP Client in Link mode 4.5.4. UDP Mode STW-602C can be configured in a UDP mode to establish connection using Unicast or Multicast data from the serial device to one or multiple host computers. Vice versa is also true. For example, the original RS-422/ RS485 bus can be transferred and extended connected distance by STW-602Cs.

  • Page 26: Serial Settings

    Packet delimiter is a way of controlling the number of packets in a serial communication. It is designed to keep packets in track. STW-602C provides two ways in parameter setting: (1) Packet delimiter by timer and (2) packet delimiter by Character pattern. By default, packet delimiter timer is 10 ms. the range of...

  • Page 27: Configure System

    packet delimiter timer is 10 to 30,000 msec. For Character pattern terminator, if “character pattern is selected and a data stream ended with “0x0a04”, then the entire data buffer of the serial device is transmitted. User can also choose character pattern as the packet delimiter indicated. 4.6.

  • Page 28: Configure Wlan Region

    Fig 34. Time service settings from System web page Select the country from drop-down list box to country that user wants to implement the STW-602C. This selection will be effected to the bands of channel of STW-602C wireless mode. For example, the normal...

  • Page 29: Restoring Factory Default

    4.6.4. Restoring Factory Default Configurations Operation: System Set to Default User can click on “set to default and restart” button to restore STW-602C’s settings to factory default (Fig. 36). Fig 36. Set all parameters to factory default by Web Interface 4.6.5.

  • Page 30: Telnet Configuration

    Then the following main menu shall appear Fig 39. Overview information by telnet  If the STW-602C does not receive any command within 1 minute, Telnet will be terminated automatically.  The changes of networking parameters will take effect only after the STW-602C is restarted.

  • Page 31: General Information

    Select “1” from “Input choice (0~6) and enter:” to enter “overview page. This system overview window gives the general information on Ethernet & WLAN IP, MAC address, SNMP information, kernel and AP version, and the connection status of the STW-602C (Fig. 39). The following overview information shall appear.

  • Page 32: Networking Configuration

     Note: Press “0” key to return to the previous menu This section allows for changes in IP address, subnet mask, gateway IP address and SNMP information. Please note that setting changes will not take effect until the STW-602C is restarted.

  • Page 33: Lan Settings

    5.2.1. LAN Settings Operation: [Main][2 Networking][1 LAN Settings] Select “1” from “Input choice (0~3) and enter on Networking page:” to enter LAN Settings page. The MAC address, IP address, subnet mask, gateway address, and IP mode information will be shown (Fig.

  • Page 34: Snmp Settings

    SNMP, and set network identification information on SNMP Settings page. The changes will not become effective until STW-602C is restarted STW-602C basically supports get/set SNMP parameters, these are SysName (System Name), SysLocation (System Location) and SysContact (System Contact). These fields will response and supply basic system information from standard SNMP query.

  • Page 35: Wireless Ip, Netmask, Gateway And Ip Mode Settings

    Operation: [Main]  [3 Wireless Setting]  [5 Region] WLAN Region is the geography area that user want to implement the STW-602C. Because the wireless channel implement the frequency band differently in a different regions. User can configure the WLAN...

  • Page 36: Site Survey

    After user do the site survey the result of all access points nearby will be displayed (Fig.49). Then user can select the access point that user want STW-602C to be connected to by enter the number of access point (Fig. 50).

  • Page 37: Manual Wireless Settings

    Operation: [Main]  [3 Wireless Setting]  [7 Manually Settings] User can manually configure STW-602C wireless configurations by enter 7 at the Wireless Settings page. Then user can set any wireless parameters by enter the menu corresponding to that parameters. Wireless parameters are shown in Fig.
  • Page 38 Operation: [Main]  [3 Wireless Setting]  [7 Manually Settings]  [8 Encryption Type] For security reason, Wireless STW-602C can configure to use WEP key of 40 bits or 128 bits, or advance WPA-PSK to securely communicate in the wireless network. WEP key manually configure via telnet screen...
  • Page 39 The 802.11 infrastructure networking framework is the framework which devices communicated with each other have to connect to an Access Point (AP) first before connect to the other devices. Wireless STW-602C supports different type of authorizations in infrastructure modes; include Open system, shared encryption with WEP64/128, WPA-PSK, from wireless encryption features.
  • Page 40 Fig 54. Wireless: Open authorization and none encryption Configure share authorization with WEP encryption  Topology: Infrastructure  Channel: Auto-assignment from Access point  Authentication: shared  Encryption: WEP...
  • Page 41 Fig 55. Wireless: Share authorization and WEP encryption Configure wireless network via access point with WPA-PSK  Topology: Infrastructure  Channel: Auto-assignment from Access point  Authentication: WPA-PSK  Encryption: TKIP or AES  WPA-PSK: 8~ 63 Characters...

  • Page 42: Configure Infrastructure Mode

    Fig 56. Wireless: WPA-PSK authorization and TKIP encryption 5.4. COM Port Configuration User can configure serial parameters, include COM1(COM2) operation mode, port parameters, enable or disable serial buffer’s data and packet delimiter. Fig 57. Select COM Port from Serial Settings by Telnet...

  • Page 43: Tcp Server Mode For Link Mode

    Operation: [Main]  [4 Serial Settings]  [1 Link mode]  [1 TCP Server] TCP Server mode is default setting for Link mode of serial settings of STW-602C, and it can be configured to wait for the host computers to establish a connection with the serial device through STW-602C.

  • Page 44: Tcp Client For Link Mode

    STW-602Cs, The destination IP is assigned by single IP or group IPs, The configuration is limited by the Local Listening Port, default 4660 and 4661 on the COM1 and COM2 of STW-602C. STW-602C can support up to 4-group IPs for UDP connection, if users needed.

  • Page 45: Serial Settings

    Packet delimiter is a way of controlling the number of packets in a serial communication. It is designed to keep packets in track. STW-602C provides two ways in packet delimiter parameter setting: (1) Packet delimiter by timer and (2) Packet delimiter by character. By default, packet delimiter timer is 10 ms. The ranges of packet delimiter timer is 10 to 30,000 ms, If “character pattern’...
  • Page 46 User can change packet delimiter timer by following the steps below. Configure Network Delimiter using Timer [Main][4 Serial Settings] [8 Delimiter (Network to Serial)]/ [9 Delimiter (Serial to Network)] [1 Timer] User can choose packet delimiter timer’s value as the packet delimiter indicated in Fig. 63 below Fig 63.

  • Page 47: Security Configuration

    5.5. Security Configuration Operation: [Main]  [5 Security] User can change password of STW-602C with this menu. Fig 65. Security settings by Telnet...

  • Page 48: Change The Password

    5.5.1. Change the Password Operation: [Main]  [5 Security] [1 Change Password] Enter desired password on “New password” fields. Fig 66. Changing the Password by Telnet  Note: User may press the reset key on the product to reset to default password (blank). ...

  • Page 49: Appendix A. Using Virtual Com

    Virtual COM driver mode for windows converts COM port data (RS232) to IP data to control the RS-232C port on a STW-602C over the IP network. 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 STW-602C which connected to the serial devices.

  • Page 50: Virtual Com Communication

    Enable Virtual COM on STW-602C by web interface From web browser access to STW-602C by typing its IP address, click on “Serial” link to access Serial 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 51 Login STW-602C via Telnet Fig 69. Login into STW-602C by Telnet or Console Select serial setting for TCP server/Client, and enabling Virtual COM mode Fig 70. Enable Virtual COM mode by Telnet...
  • Page 52 On Port Number, enter the TCP port number of the STW-602C.  On Server Credentials, the default is No Login Required. If the STW-602C does require login by the Virtual COM Redirector, the Virtual COM Redirector must provide a username and/or password every time an application tries to access the STW-602C.
  • Page 53 Fig 72. Configuration Wizard from Serial to IP tool...

  • Page 54: Appendix B. Configuration Utility

    Appendix B. Configuration Utility B.1. SerialManager utility Introduction SerialManager utility, is a special tool for device management and configuration, and can realize the daily management on various network devices for address search, device positioning, parameter configuring, firmware downloading and so on. B.2.
  • Page 55 Or, select by clicking a button on the toolbar, as below: Broadcast Rescan Search B3.1.1 Broadcast Search Once Broadcast Search is selected, a box will pop up as below:...
  • Page 56 The user may type in or select different broadcast address based on his/her own requirement. B3.1.2 Search by IP address Once Search by IP Address is selected, an interface will pop up as below: Here user may have two options: Select an IP address to search or Search device in the range of IP address.
  • Page 57 B3.1.3 Search by MAC Address If Search by MAC Address is selected, another box will pop up as below: Here the user may search in two ways: Search a MAC address to search or Search devices in the range of MAC address B3.1.4 Rescan Once the user click the Rescan button on the toolbar, the SerialManager utility shall re-search devices by using the current search way.

  • Page 58: Functions

    B3.2 Firmware This function is applied to downloading a firmware into a selected device. Upgrade from disk Upgrade from disk The user can enter the window for downloading by firstly clicking a designated network device, and then selecting the submenu option Upgrade from disk in the main menu option Firmware, or directly clicking the button Upgrade from disk.
  • Page 59 The user can also select several same devices at one time, and realize the firmware updating for them by selecting Apply for all selected devices have same model. Download Parameter In addition for some devices with JFFS2 file system supported, the user can download the related parameter data into the device that supports the JFFS2 file system through a submenu Download Parameter.
  • Page 60 Note: Some of old firmware version did not support SerialManual firmware upgrade function. Please refer to appendix "Upgrading System Software “for detail. B3.3 Security This function is applied to the security protection for the network devices, so as to supply some necessary protection to a device for configuration modifying, configuration leading-in and leading-out, and some other important functions.
  • Page 61 The user can also select several devices at one time, and log in them at the same time by selecting Apply for all selected devices. B3.3.2 Logout This function is applied to the logout from any network device, as the user should always carry out a logout after he/she has finished the operating action to any important device, shown as the figure below: The user can also select several devices at one time, and log out them at the same time by selecting Apply for all selected devices.
  • Page 62 The user can also select several devices at one time, and modify their pins at the same time by selecting Apply for all selected devices. B3.4 Configuration This function is applied to the configuring, import and export of work parameters for any network device, and here are mainly supplied with: ‘Network …’, ‘COM Port…’, ‘Locate’, ‘Reset’, ‘Erase Flash’, ‘Import Setting…’, ‘Export Setting…’, ‘Virtual COM…’, ‘Config by IE’...
  • Page 63 B3.4.2 COM Port … Various network products and some of the devices are specially supplied to some serial-port servers, while this function is applied to the configuration of COM port parameters. Note: This function can be realized only after a successful login, shown as the figure below: The user can also select several devices at one time, and carry out the configuration for them at the same time by selecting Apply for all selected same model devices Note:...
  • Page 64 TCP Server mode TCP Client mode UDP mode 3． COM port property: it mainly represents the working parameter of the serial port setting, including: serial-port working type, baud rate, data bit, stop bit, parity bit, data packet delimiter and flow control, etc.
  • Page 65 The user can also select several devices at one time, and lead the parameter information of a standard parameter file into all the selected devices by selecting Apply for all selected devices have same model. B3.4.7 Export Setting… If a network has a large number of devices which are used for a same purpose, it would be very complicated to carry out the parameter configuration for each of the devices in the network one by one, while the user can save the parameter information of a standard device into a parameter file through the submenu option Export setting…...
  • Page 66 The user can also select several devices at one time, and save the parameter information of these selected devices into a designated parameter file by selecting "Save all the selected devices". B3.4.8 Virtual COM Some devices are supplied with the function of virtual serial port, and the user can carry out any related setting through the submenu option "Virtual COM", shown as the figure below: B3.4.9 Configure by IE Some devices are supplied with build-in Web servers, and the user can carry out any parameter setting...
  • Page 67 directly through the submenu option Config by IE, shown as the figure below: B3.4.10 Option The option is mainly applied to setting some common work rules of SerialManager utility, such as: search for the time interval of a network device, or whether to display any device indication and so on, shown as the figure below: 3.5 View The user can select a display mode of the network device according to his/her own requirement through the...
  • Page 68 B3.6 Help This function is mainly applied to displaying some help information of the SerialManager utility, shown as the figure below:...

  • Page 69: Appendix C. Upgrading System Software

    Fig 82. Connected & downloading process for STW-602C’s Upgrade C.2. Critical Issues in Upgrading Process If the upgrading is successful, STW-602C shall re-program the flash memory, and the buzzer will beep before restarting. It takes around 5 seconds to complete the re-programming. If an error occurs during the...
  • Page 70 STW-602C will clear the corresponding memories, and the system will remain the same as the one before the upgrading process.

  • Page 71: Appendix D. Specifications

    Appendix D. Specifications D.1. Hardware Specifications System 150MHz RISC with MMU support Memory Flash: 8MB, 2MB for Bootloader / SDRAM: 16MBytes. Interface Mini-PCI Slot (for Wireless Module) Watchdog Hardware Watchdog Reset Debug Port CPU Build in Com. Wireless LAN Protocols Compliance for IEEE802.11b/g Modulation Type: CCK, DQPSK, DBPSK, OFDM (11g) Topologies...

  • Page 72: Software Specifications

    Environmental Operating 0 to 65°C (32 to 140°F), 5 to 95% RH Temperature Storage -20 to 85°C (-4 to 185°F), 5 to 95%RH Temperature Regulatory Approvals FCC/CE Safety Warranty 5 Years D.2. Software Specifications Software Protocol ICMP, IP, TCP, UDP, DHCP Client, Telnet, DNS, SNMP, HTTP, SMTP, SNTP Utility Virtual COM Utilities for Windows 98/2000/XP/2003/Vista Configure Utilities: Supported for Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista...

  • Page 73: Beep & Led Status

    Wireless Signal Strength status The BSS quality can be detected by LED indicator on STW-602C. On running time, pressed default key and then released, one of the specified actions below shall be done that depend on the released time after you heard how many beeps.
  • Page 74 Description Message LED Off No data is transmitting on Ethernet LED blinking Data is transmitting on Ethernet COM Port LED Message Message Description LED off No data is transmitting on COM port LED on blinking state Data is transmitting on COM port RUN LED Message Description Message...

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