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Rockwell Automation Ethernet Design Considerations Reference Manual User Manual

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Rockwell Automation Publication ENET-RM002C-EN-P - May 2013

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Ethernet Infrastructure Features

Chapter 3

A DLR network is a single-fault tolerant network. Network traffic is managed to
make sure critical data is delivered in a timely manner.

Physical layer failure includes the following:

All faults that are detectable at physical layer

Physical layer failure detected by protocol-aware node

Status message sent by ring node and received by ring supervisor

Stratix 8000
IE Switch

Beacon

Beacon

Forwarding

ControlLogix Controller

Active Ring
Supervisor

Announce

Announce

Blocking

ETAP

POINT I/O
Distributed I/O

ArmorPOINT I/O
Distributed I/O

POINT I/O
Distributed I/O

ArmorPOINT I/O
Distributed I/O

Stratix 8000
IE Switch

ETAP

ControlLogix Controller

Active Ring
Supervisor

Link Failure

Link Status

Link Status

POINT I/O
Disrtributed I/O

ArmorPOINT I/O
Distributed I/O

POINT I/O
Disrtributed I/O

ArmorPOINT I/O
Distributed I/O