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ProSoft Technology PLX31-EIP-SIE User Manual

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EIP Protocol

PLX3x Series

User Manual

Ethernet and Serial Gateways

Page 86 of 218

ProSoft Technology, Inc.

September 17, 2014

The MESSAGE CONFIGURATION dialog box must be completed to define the
data set to be transferred from the processor to the gateway. An example of the
dialog box follows:

Complete the dialog box for the data area to be transferred. For PLC5 and SLC
messages, the DESTINATION ELEMENT should be an element in a data file
(such as, N10:0). For the PLC2 Unprotected Write message, the DESTINATION
ELEMENT
is the address in the gate

way’s internal database and cannot be set

to a value less than ten. This is not a limitation of the gateway but of the RSLogix
software. For a PLC2 unprotected write or read function, the database address
should be entered in octal format. The COMMUNICATION information must also
be configured. The following is an example of the dialog box.