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S7-CPs for Industrial Ethernet Configuring and Commissioning
Release 01/2007
C79000-G8976-C182-07
5 Configuring Communication Connections
This chapter explains the following:
The general aspects of configuring communication connections
How to configure ISO transport, ISO-on-TCP, UDP and TCP connections
How to use the connection configuration functions to specify communication
partners that exchange data via UDP
You will find a description of the connection-specific properties dialogs in the
following sections:
ISO transport connections see Section 5.4
ISO-on-TCP connections see Section 5.5
TCP connections see Section 5.6
UDP see Section 5.7
You will find further information in the following sources:
For the properties of the configurable connection types, refer to Section 1.5
There are situations in which communication connections are not set up over
the configuration interface of STEP 7 but program-controlled by certain
applications; see also Chapter 6.
For the properties of the configurable connection type E-mail, refer to /5/.
You will find information on the numbers of connections and amounts of data in
Section 4.1.
For information on configuring connections, refer to the online help of STEP 7
by selecting Help
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