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Created Date: November 30,2016
Created By: Ernie M
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One of our facilities has the entire local network pcs, cameras, controls, etc) starting with 10.20. Any suggestions on how to connect a Productivity 2000 to this network and be able to do some ethernet/IP explicit messaging to other controllers on the same 10.20.26. subnet? P2K uses 10.20 for its local ethernet, but hours of searching manuals and I found no mention of this. I sure hope I didn't just spend weeks programming and testing a PLC offsite to find it is simply unusable once installed.
Created Date: November 30,2016
Created by: Ernie M
One of our facilities has the entire local network pcs, cameras, controls, etc) starting with 10.20. Any suggestions on how to connect a Productivity 2000 to this network and be able to do some ethernet/IP explicit messaging to other controllers on the same 10.20.26. subnet?
P2K uses 10.20 for its local ethernet, but hours of searching manuals and I found no mention of this. I sure hope I didn't just spend weeks programming and testing a PLC offsite to find it is simply unusable once installed.
Created Date: November 30,2016
Created by: Ridgeline Mach
I'd call technical support on this one, ASAP.
Created Date: December 05,2016
Created by: OkiePC
You may also be able to install some sort of NAT capable router to allow you to leave the P2000 as is and have the existing LAN "think " it is on the 10.20 network.
Created Date: December 06,2016
Created by: EthanG
Can you put in a managed switch and set up a VLAN if there isn't one already?
Created Date: December 07,2016
Created by: Ernie M
Either of the above suggestions sound like they would get the PLC online however I don't think explicit messaging or any communication to other devices on the 10.20 network will work with either suggestion. I just don't understand why you would reserve 65,000 ish IP addresses for only 24 remote i/o's (16 GS Series Drives and 8 Remote Base Groups) and not BOLDLY DOCUMENT IT multiple locations in the manual.