Moxa Technologies NPort 5600 - Manual (Page 47)

NPort 5600 Series User’s Manual Configuring NPort Administrator
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Force transmit
Setting Factory Default Necessity
0 to 65535 ms 0 ms Optional
0: Disable the force transmit timeout.
1 to 65535: Forces the NPort’s TCP/IP protocol software to try to pack serial data received during
the specified time into the same data frame.
This parameter defines the time interval during which NPort fetches the serial data from its
internal buffer. If data is incoming through the serial port, NPort stores the data in the internal
buffer. NPort transmits data stored in the buffer via TCP/IP, but only if the internal buffer is full or
if the Force transmit time interval reaches the time specified under Force transmit timeout.
The optimal Force transmit timeout depends on your application, but it must be at least larger than
one character interval within the specified baudrate. For example, assume that the serial port is set
to 1200 bps, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and none for parity. In this case, the total number of bits needed
to send a character is 10 bits, and the time required to transfer one character is
( 10 (bits) / 1200 (bits/s) ) * 1000 (ms/s) = 8.3 ms.
Therefore, you should set Force transmit timeout to be larger than 8.3 ms, so in this case, it must
be greater than or equal to 10 ms.
If the user wants to send the series of characters in the same packet, the serial device attached to
NPort should send that series of characters during a time interval less than the Force Transmit
timeout for NPort, and the total length of data must be less than or equal to NPort’s internal buffer
size. The serial communication buffer size for NPort is 1 KB per port.
Local TCP port
Setting Factory Default Necessity
1 to 65535 4001 Required
The “Local TCP port” is the TCP port that NPort uses to listen to connections, and that other
devices must use to contact NPort. To avoid conflicts with well known TCP ports, the default is
set to 4001.
Command port
Setting Factory Default Necessity
1 to 65535 966 Optional
The “Command port” is a listen TCP port for IP-Serial Lib commands from the host. In order to
prevent a TCP port conflict with other applications, the user can set the Command port to another
port if needed. IP-Serial Lib will automatically check the Command Port on NPort so that the user
does not need to configure the program.