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User Manual

NetCom Plus

Edition: September 2016

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The software described in this manual is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of that agreement.

Trademarks

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Information provided in this manual is intended to be accurate and reliable. However, Vision Systems assumes no responsibility for its use, or for any infringements on the rights of third parties that may result from its use.

This product might include unintentional technical or typographical errors. Changes are period- ically made to the information herein to correct such errors, and these changes are incorporated into new editions of the publication.

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Contents

1 Overview 11

2 Introduction 11

2.1 About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.3 Product Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.3.1 Common characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.3.2 Device speciﬁc Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.3.2.1 NetCom Plus 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.3.2.2 NetCom Plus 113 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.3.2.3 NetCom Plus 211 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.3.2.4 NetCom Plus 213 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.3.2.5 NetCom Plus 411 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.3.2.6 NetCom Plus 411 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.3.2.7 NetCom Plus 413 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.3.2.8 NetCom Plus 413 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.3.2.9 NetCom Plus 811 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.2.10 NetCom Plus 811 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.2.11 NetCom Plus 813 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.3.2.12 NetCom Plus 813 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.3.2.13 NetCom Plus 811 DIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.4 Packing List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3 Hardware Description 22

3.1 Serial Port Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3.2 Serial Signal Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.3 RS422/485 Electrical Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.3.1 Termination Resistors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.3.2 BIAS Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.4 Serial Port Simple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.5 Digital Input/Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.5.1 Input Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.5.2 Output Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.6 Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.6.1 Ethernet and LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.6.2 WLAN Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.6.3 WLAN Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.6.4 WLAN LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.7 Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.7.1 Terminal Block Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4 Windows Virtual COM Driver 28

4.1 Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.1.1 Start the Installation Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.1.1.1 User Account Control (UAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.1.1.2 Methods of Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.1.1.3 Proceed Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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4.1.1.4 Request for Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.1.2 Find and Conﬁgure NetCom+Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.1.2.1 Conﬁgure IP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.1.2.2 Conﬁgure Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

4.1.3 Install Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

4.2 Verify the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

4.3 Update the Drivers and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

4.4 Conﬁguration of the Virtual COM Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.4.1 Conﬁgure the Serial Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.4.2 Performance Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

4.4.3 Network & Misc Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

4.4.4 Remote Settings Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

4.4.5 Installation of NetCom Plus Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

4.4.5.1 Changing the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

4.5 Uninstall the Drivers and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

5 Conﬁgure with NetCom Manager 50

5.1 Starting NetCom Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

5.2 NetCom Server Settings – Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

5.3 NetCom Server Settings – Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

5.4 NetCom Server Settings – Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

5.5 Manual Detection/Installation of a NetCom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.6 Firewall Traversal Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.6.1 SOHO Firewall example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.6.2 SOHO Virtual Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

5.6.3 NetCom Detection through SOHO Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

5.6.4 Serial Ports through SOHO Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

5.6.5 DMZ and Virtual Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

5.6.6 Firewalls in Foreign Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

5.7 Dynamic IP Address and OpenVPN™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

6 Conﬁgure the Operation Modes 59

6.1 Accessing the Conﬁgurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

6.1.1 Web Browser Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

6.1.2 Telnet Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

6.1.3 Serial Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

6.2 NetCom Conﬁguration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

6.2.1 Server Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

6.2.1.1 Server Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

6.2.1.2 Server Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

6.2.1.3 Wireless Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

6.2.1.4 Encrypted Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

6.2.1.5 viaVPN Remote Management and Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

6.2.1.6 Modbus GPIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

6.2.1.7 Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

6.2.1.8 Date & Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

6.2.1.9 Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

6.2.2 Serial Port Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

6.2.2.1 Serial Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

6.2.2.2 Transfer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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6.2.2.2.1 Driver Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

6.2.2.2.2 TCP Raw Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

6.2.2.2.3 TCP Raw Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

6.2.2.2.4 Null Modem Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

6.2.2.2.5 TCP Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

6.2.2.2.6 UDP Data Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

6.2.2.2.7 IP-Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

6.2.2.2.8 Print Server Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

6.2.2.3 Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

6.2.3 NetCom Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

6.2.3.1 Ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

6.2.3.2 Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

6.2.3.3 Netstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

6.2.3.4 Wireless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

6.2.3.5 Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

6.2.3.6 Save and Load Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

6.2.3.7 Logging and Debug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

6.2.3.8 Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

6.2.4 Reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

6.2.5 Save&Exit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

6.2.5.1 Save Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

6.2.5.2 Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

6.2.5.3 Reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

6.3 Erase Conﬁguration of NetCom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

7 Operation in Linux 94

7.1 Via Fixed TTY Pseudo Serial Port (socat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

7.2 Via TCP Raw Server Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

8 IP Modem Function 96

8.1 Some possible Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

8.2 Serial Signals and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

8.3 Operation Modes by IP Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8.4 Hayes Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8.4.1 AT command set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

8.4.1.1 Standard AT-Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

8.4.1.2 Extended AT-Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

8.4.1.3 Non-AT commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

8.4.2 S-Registers for Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

8.4.3 Sample Commands used by Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

8.5 Description of AT–Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

8.5.1 AT D (dial) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

8.5.2 AT O (online / data mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

8.5.3 AT A (answer call) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

8.5.4 AT B (modulation) [ATB1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

8.5.5 AT E (echo) [ATE1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

8.5.6 AT Q (quiet) [ATQ0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

8.5.7 AT V (verbose) [ATV1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

8.5.8 AT H (hangup) [ATH0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

8.5.9 AT I(n) (information) [ATI0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

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8.5.10 AT S (setup) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

8.5.11 AT L (loudness) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

8.5.12 AT M (speaker) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

8.5.13 AT N (auto baud) [ATN0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

8.5.14 AT Z (reset) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

8.5.15 AT &F (factory settings) [AT&F0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

8.5.16 AT &C (DCD conﬁguration) [AT&C1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

8.5.17 AT &S (DSR conﬁguration) [AT&S0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

8.5.18 AT &D (DTR conﬁguration) [AT&D2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

8.5.19 AT &K (handshake) [AT&K3] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

8.5.20 AT \Q [AT\Q3] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

8.5.21 AT &V (view proﬁle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

8.5.22 AT &W (save proﬁle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

8.5.23 AT &Z (save destination) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

9 Print Server Operation 105

9.1 Printer Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

9.2 Printer Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

9.2.1 Init String Deﬁnition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

9.2.1.1 ASCII Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

9.2.1.2 ASCII Control Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

9.2.1.3 Numeric Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

9.2.1.4 Modem Control Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

9.2.1.5 Timing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

9.2.2 Reset Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

9.3 Operation in Windows® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

9.3.1 Add a New Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

9.3.1.1 Create new printer port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

9.3.1.2 Name the new Printer Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

9.3.1.3 Conﬁgure the Printer Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

9.3.1.4 Install Printer Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

9.3.2 Modify an Existing Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

9.3.2.1 Open the properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

9.3.2.2 Add the Print Server Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

10 OpenVPN™ Encryption 111

10.1 OpenVPN™ Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

10.2 NetCom OpenVPN Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

10.3 OpenVPN™ Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

10.3.1 Create OpenVPN™ Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

10.3.2 Create OpenVPN™ Certiﬁcate and Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

10.3.3 Start NetCom Plus with OpenVPN™ active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

10.3.4 Start OpenVPN™ by Context-Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

10.3.5 Start OpenVPN™ by Command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

10.3.6 Start OpenVPN™ as Windows Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

10.4 OpenVPN™ without Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

10.5 Reconﬁgure Virtual Serial Ports for OpenVPN™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

11 viaVPN Remote Access System 120

11.1 Obstacles when used via Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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11.2 How viaVPN solves the above Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

11.3 Conﬁguration of viaVPN Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

11.4 Operation with viaVPN System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

12 Modbus/TCP for Digital-Input/Output 123

12.1 Speciﬁcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

12.2 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

12.2.1 Read two input signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

12.2.2 Write one output signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

13 TCP/IP Description 125

13.1 Recommended Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

13.1.1 Static Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

13.1.2 DHCP Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

13.1.3 Automatic Conﬁguration (APIPA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

13.1.4 Other Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

14 Troubleshooting Guide 127

15 Glossary of Terms 129

16 History 131

List of Figures

1 NetCom Plus 111 / 113 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2 NetCom Plus 213 Top, Front, Left and Back Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3 NetCom Plus 411 / 413 Front side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

4 NetCom Plus 411 / 413 / 413 POE Rear side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

5 NetCom Plus 411 POE Rear side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

6 NetCom Plus 811 / 813 Front side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

7 NetCom Plus 811 / 813 / 813 POE Rear side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

8 NetCom Plus 811 POE Rear side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

9 NetCom Plus 811 DIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

10 Connector

DSub-9 male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

11 DIP NetCom Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

12 Terminal Block Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

13 Terminal Block Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

14 Power Terminal Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

15 Installation Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

16 User Account Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

17 NetCom+Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

18 Start Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

19 Copy Driver Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

20 Install Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

21 Firewall options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

22 Discover and Select NetCom+Devices for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

23 NetCom+in Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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24 Deﬁne NetCom+s IP Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

25 DNS Name for NetCom+Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

26 Sending Parameters to a NetCom+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

27 Virtual Com Ports installing in Windows 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

28 Virtual Com Ports installing in Windows 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

29 VScom drivers in the Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

30 NetCom+in Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

31 NetCom+COM Port Serial Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

32 NetCom+COM Port Performance Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

33 NetCom+COM Port Network/Misc Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

34 NetCom+COM Port Remote Settings Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

35 Select NetCom+to install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

36 New NetCom+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

37 Installed NetCom+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

38 “Bad” NetCom+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

39 Excluded NetCom+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

40 Disconnected NetCom+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

41 NetCom Plus Manager Ports View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

42 Reconﬁgured NetCom+found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

43 Replaced NetCom+found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

44 Uninstall NetCom+Drivers via Settings App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

45 Uninstall NetCom+Drivers in Windows 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

46 Uninstall NetCom+Drivers in Windows 7 Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

47 Remove, Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

48 NetCom Plus Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

49 NetCom Manager in Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

50 NetCom Manager Servers Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

51 NetCom Manager Server Settings - Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

52 NetCom Manager Server Settings - Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

53 NetCom Manager Server Settings - Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

54 NetCom Manager Port Conﬁguration for Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

55 Conﬁguration Menu in Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

56 Request to Reboot in Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

57 Password Request in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

58 Select Terminal Type in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

59 Main Menu of Conﬁguration Console in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

60 Server Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

61 Server Parameter Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

62 Server Parameter Telnet Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

63 Wireless Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

64 Wireless Encryption Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

65 OpenVPN Network Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

66 viaVPN Network Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

67 Modbus/TCP Network Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

68 Access Authentiﬁcation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

69 Date & Time Retrieval Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

70 Port Page Selection in Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

71 Port Selection in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

72 Serial Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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73 Operation Mode by Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

74 Advanced Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

75 Serial Port Mode Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

76 Driver Mode parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

77 TCP Raw Server parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

78 TCP Raw Client parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

79 Null Modem Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

80 TCP Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

81 UDP Data Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

82 IP-Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

83 Print Server Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

84 Ping and Response in Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

85 Ping and Response in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

86 Statistics Port Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

87 Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

88 Start Netstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

89 Netstat Sample Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

90 WLAN Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

91 WLAN Scan Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

92 Firmware Upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

93 Save and Load Conﬁguration in Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

94 Syslog & Debuglog Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

95 Menu Save modiﬁed Parameters in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

96 Menu Exit from Conﬁguration in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

97 Exit and Reboot in Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

98 Add a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

99 Select Printer Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

100 Create Printer Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

101 Name-Properties of Print Server Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

102 Mode-Properties of Print Server Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

103 Select Port for Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

104 Add Printer Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

105 OpenVPN Installation Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

106 OpenVPN Installable Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

107 Installing TAP-Win32 Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

108 OpenVPN Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

109 OpenVPN Client Conﬁguration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

110 OpenVPN Server Conﬁguration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

111 Context-Menu of OpenVPN™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

112 OpenVPN Connection is active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

113 OpenVPN by Command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

114 OpenVPN as Windows Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

115 Start OpenVPN Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

116 Service Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

117 Startup Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

118 viaVPN Network Parameter (web) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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1 Speciﬁcations, common . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 113 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

4 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 211 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

5 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 213 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

6 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 411 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

7 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 411 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

8 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 413 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

9 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 413 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

10 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 811 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

11 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 811 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

12 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 813 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

13 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 813 POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

14 Characteristics of NetCom Plus 811 DIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

15 DIP Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

16 Signal Assignment DSub-9 male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

17 LED Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

18 SOHO Firewall Pass-Through . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

19 IP Modem cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

20 IP Modem Standard AT-Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

21 IP Modem Extended AT-Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

22 IP Modem S-Registers for Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

23 IP Modem Sample Dials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

24 IP Modem virtual Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

25 IP Modem Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

26 IP Modem Information Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

27 IP Modem DTR Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

28 Ready LED with viaVPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

29 Function Codes Modbus/TCP for Digital-I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

30 Mapping Modbus addresses to Input-/Output-signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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2 Introduction

1 Overview

The NetCom Plus Serial Device Servers are designed to remotely operate serial ports over networks. The network interface is implemented as a modern Gigabit / Fast Ethernet with Auto-MDI(X). The subfamily of NetCom Plus with WLAN option Serial Device Servers provide a second network interface for WLAN (as of 802.11 b/g/n) with up to 150 Mbit/s transfer rate. The subfamily of NetCom Plus POE Serial Device Servers may use power supply by Power-over-Ethernet function, as an alternative to a standard DC supply.

The data transport is implemented via TCP/IP and UDP protocols. Therefore control is available via WLAN, Ethernet, Intranet and Internet. All communication with the NetCom Plus Servers may happen encrypted by SSL on all interfaces.

The supplied driver software implements virtual serial ports, which hide the network transfer from your applications. Software applications using standard COM ports need no change to operate via NetCom Plus through the virtual serial ports.

The NetCom Plus Serial Device Servers are also referred to as “NetCom+” for brevity. This abbreviation is used in this manual, when the description of a function or property is more general.

2 Introduction

This manual covers several diﬀerent models of NetCom Plus devices. In general the operation is the same on all models, except where explicitly noted otherwise. All models are available with an option for Wireless LAN.

The devices come with a steel case well suited for industrial environments.

The NetCom Plus support high serial speeds up to or possibly above 3 Mbps. All serial ports provide communication via the common RS232 mode (up to 1000 kbps). They also oﬀer the industrial RS422 and RS485 conﬁguration (up to 3.0 or 3.7 Mbps). In RS485 mode the NetCom

will use the Automatic Receive Transmit (ART) control logic to follow the RS 485 speciﬁcations for transmitting data. No special code for data direction is necessary to be implemented in your software applications.

Applications requiring RS232 only are in widespread use. For ease of conﬁguration several models of NetCom Plus only support this serial operation. The names of these models end with an ‘11’.

2.1 About this Manual

This manual covers many conﬁguration options of the NetCom Plus Serial Device Servers. The vast majority of these are set by software, sometimes in alternative methods. To emphasize these in the text, special character styles are used.

Bold Typewriter is used for the names of conﬁguration options or buttons, as they

are displayed in menus or dialogs.

Typewriter denotes names of special values for multiple-choice parameters. Such

values may appear in drop-down lists or as radio buttons.

The version of the ﬁrmware described in this manual is 3.3.5, covered together with driver 2.0.0.0.

NetCom Plus 111 / 211 / 411 (POE) / 811 (POE/DIO)

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2.2 Features

• Single power supply NetCom Plus DC 9-54V, 800 mA@12V

• Double power supply NetCom Plus POE DC 15-54V, 800 mA@15V Power over Ethernet 802.3af Class 0

• Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n for 150Mbit/s as an option

• Gigabit Ethernet 1000/100/10 Mbps for auto-conﬁguration

• Three way serial port interfaces: RS232/ RS422/RS 485

• USB 2.0 port for Expansion of serial ports via USB–COM Plus modules

• Max. 3.0/3.7 Mbps, half- and full-duplex

• TCP/IP conﬁguration ﬁxed or by DHCP

• Easy remote conﬁguration via SNMP

• Drivers for Windows™ operating systems

• Documented interface for every networked operating system

2.3 Product Speciﬁcations

Most of the hardware characteristics are common for all models. However some must diﬀer from model to model, they are shown in dedicated sections. Some models are restricted to RS232, others do have a POE supply.

Most models provide an USB 2.0 high-speed port. This may be used for a USB WLAN adapter or to add more serial ports via USB–COM Plus modules2. The modules provide USB-through function to add even more ports, in total there may be 16, 24, 32, ... ports.

USB–COM Plus modules on VScom.de

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2.3.1 Common characteristics

Hardware Modern ARM processor WLAN antenna SMA-reverse (optional) Ethernet connector RJ45 1000Base-T/100BaseTx/10BaseT Protocols TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, DHCP, ICMP, ARP, Telnet, RTelnet, HTTP Serial Speed 180 bps up to 3.0 or 3.7 Mbps 1 Parity None, Even, Odd, Mark, Space Data bits 7, 8 Stop bits 1, 2

Serial signals

RS232 TxD, RxD, RTS, CTS, DTR, DSR,

DCD, GND RS422 RS485 4-wire

Tx+/Tx−, Rx+/Rx−,GND

RS485 2-wire Data+/Data−, GND

Serial connector DSub9 male (similar to PC) Serial operation RS232, RS422/ 485 conﬁgured by DIP switch or by software

LED

PWR Red Power, blinks once when ready for

operation Wiﬁ / WLAN Blue If Wireless LAN is available RDY Green Lights when ready for operation

Management Serial console, Telnet, Web browser, SNMP Driver software Windows 10/8.1/8/7/2008/Vista/2003/XP Management software Driver installation and conﬁguration program, Management console Operating temp. 0° to 65°C Approval CE, FCC

Table 1: Speciﬁcations, common

Note 1: Serial bitrates above 500 kbps may cause problems when used with RS232. It requires short cables with low capacity, to reduce load on the serial signals. When using RS422 / 485 there is no problem using maximum bitrates.

2.3.2 Device speciﬁc Characteristics

2.3.2.1 NetCom Plus 111 One Port.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 250 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Serial Ports 1×RS232 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 1.0 Mbps Data bits 5, 6, 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 115×73×25 mm (W×D×H) Weight 400 g

Table 2: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 111

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2.3.2.2 NetCom Plus 113 One Port.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 250 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Serial Ports 1×RS232/ RS422/RS 485 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 3.7 Mbps Data bits 5, 6, 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 115×73×25 mm (W×D×H) Weight 400 g

Table 3: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 113

(a) NetCom Plus 111 / 113 on DIN Rail, with

Front, Top and Left Side

(b) Rear Side

Figure 1: NetCom Plus 111 / 113

The NetCom Plus 111 and the NetCom Plus 113 look the same on the front side. Here are the connectors for Ethernet, USB 2.0, LEDs and the serial port. The rear side holds the power connector, Reset button and the conﬁguration switches. Positions for WLAN antenna are built- in.

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2.3.2.3 NetCom Plus 211 Two Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 250 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Serial Ports 2×RS232 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 1.0 Mbps Data bits 5, 6, 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 115×73×25 mm (W×D×H) Weight 400 g

Table 4: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 211

2.3.2.4 NetCom Plus 213 Two Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 250 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Serial Ports 2×RS232/ RS422/RS 485 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 3.7 Mbps Data bits 5, 6, 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 115×73×25 mm (W×D×H) Weight 400 g

Table 5: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 213

(a) Top, Front and Left Side

(b) Rear Side

Figure 2: NetCom Plus 213 Top, Front, Left and Back Side

The NetCom Plus 211 and the NetCom Plus 213 look the same on the front side. Here are the connectors for Ethernet, USB 2.0, LEDs and the serial ports. The rear side holds the power

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connector, Reset button and the conﬁguration switches. DIN Rail mounting clamp is ﬁxed here. Positions for WLAN antenna are built-in.

2.3.2.5 NetCom Plus 411 Four Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 600 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Serial Ports 4×RS232 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 1.0 Mbps Data bits 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 196×147×44 mm (W×D×H) Weight 900 g

Table 6: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 411

2.3.2.6 NetCom Plus 411 POE Four Ports.

Power Requirement DC 15V to 54V, 600 mA@15V

(DC 15V to 54V on some samples) Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Power Alternative Power over Ethernet PoE 802.3af Class 0 Serial Ports 4×RS232 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 500 kbps Data bits 7, 8 Dimensions 196×147×44 mm (W×D×H) Weight 900 g

Table 7: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 411 POE

Note: RDY (Ready) LED is blue

2.3.2.7 NetCom Plus 413 Four Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 600 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) mPCIe Slot Optional, for 3G/4G modems LED

3G Orange If mobile network is available Serial Ports 4×RS232/ RS422/RS 485 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 3.0 Mbps Data bits 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 196×147×44 mm (W×D×H) Weight 900 g

Table 8: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 413

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2.3.2.8 NetCom Plus 413 POE Four Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 600 mA@15V

(DC 15V to 54V on some samples) Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Power Alternative Power over Ethernet PoE 802.3af Class 0 mPCIe Slot Optional, for 3G/4G modems LED

Table 9: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 413 POE

Figure 3: NetCom Plus 411 / 413 Front side

Figure 4: NetCom Plus 411 / 413 / 413 POE Rear side

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Figure 5: NetCom Plus 411 POE Rear side

All models with four serial ports look the same on the front side. This side has the connectors for Ethernet and the serial ports, plus the LEDs. Also here is a plastic cap hiding the position for a WLAN antenna. The rear side holds the power connector, Reset button and the conﬁguration switches. Except for NetCom Plus 411 POE there is also the USB 2.0 expansion port. The two holes for screws may be used as addtional contacts for Protective Earth.

2.3.2.9 NetCom Plus 811 Eight Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 800 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Serial Ports 8×RS232 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 1.0 Mbps Data bits 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 196×147×44 mm (W×D×H) Weight 900 g

Table 10: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 811

2.3.2.10 NetCom Plus 811 POE Eight Ports.

Table 11: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 811 POE

Note: RDY (Ready) LED is blue

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2.3.2.11 NetCom Plus 813 Eight Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 800 mA@12V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) mPCIe Slot Optional, for 3G/4G modems LED

3G Orange If mobile network is available Serial Ports 8×RS232/ RS422/RS 485 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 3.0 Mbps Data bits 7, 8 USB Port For Expansion of Ports and WLAN Dimensions 196×147×44 mm (W×D×H) Weight 900 g

Table 12: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 813

2.3.2.12 NetCom Plus 813 POE Eight Ports.

Power Requirement DC 9V to 54V, 800 mA@15V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Power Alternative Power over Ethernet PoE 802.3af Class 0 mPCIe Slot Optional, for 3G/4G modems LED

Table 13: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 813 POE

Figure 6: NetCom Plus 811 / 813 Front side

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Figure 7: NetCom Plus 811 / 813 / 813 POE Rear side

Figure 8: NetCom Plus 811 POE Rear side

The above models with eight serial ports look the same on the front side. This side has the connectors for Ethernet and the serial ports, plus the LEDs. Also here is a plastic cap hiding the position for a WLAN antenna. The rear side holds the power connector, Reset button and the conﬁguration switches. Except for NetCom Plus 811 POE there is also the USB 2.0 expansion port. The two holes for screws may be used as addtional contacts for Protective Earth.

2.3.2.13 NetCom Plus 811 DIO Eight Serial Ports, 8 Digital Input and 8 Digital Output.

Power Requirement DC 15V to 54V, 800 mA@15V Power Connector Terminal Block (3.7.1) Power Alternative Power over Ethernet PoE 802.3af Class 0 Serial Ports 8×RS232 Serial Speed 180 bps up to 500 kbps Data bits 7, 8 Digital Inputs 8× wet input (5V) optically isolated Digital Outputs 8× relay output (contacts for normal open / closed) Dimensions 196×147×44 mm (W×D×H) Weight 900 g

Table 14: Characteristics of NetCom Plus 811 DIO

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(a) NetCom Plus 811 DIO Front side

(b) NetCom Plus 811 DIO Rear side

Figure 9: NetCom Plus 811 DIO

The NetCom Plus 811 DIO looks the same on the front side, as all the other models with eight serial ports. Here are the connectors for Ethernet and the serial ports, plus the LEDs and the plastic cap hiding the position for a WLAN antenna. The rear side holds the power connector, Reset button, conﬁguration switches and connectors for terminal blocks used with input and output signals. The terminal block clamps are plug-in, so here each side is shown with one socket plugged and the other open. The two holes for screws may either hold a ﬁxture for cable straps, to guide the wires for digital I/O contacts. Or they may serve as an addtional contact for Protective Earth.

Note: RDY (Ready) LED is blue

2.4 Packing List

• NetCom Plus or NetCom Plus POE Serial Device Server

• WLAN Antenna with WLAN option

• Mounting angles for 19” models

• Terminal Block connector for DC power supply

• Terminal Block connectors for Input/Output on NetCom Plus 811 DIO

• CD-ROM with driver and conﬁguration software

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This section focuses on the options provided by the hardware of NetCom Plus Serial Device Servers.

3.1 Serial Port Conﬁguration

The serial ports in the NetCom+Devices follow the speciﬁcations of RS232. On many models it is also possible to use the serial ports in RS422 or RS 485 mode. This is deﬁned by a set of DIP switches or by software. Here is a list of the available modes and the switch settings. Table15a shows the DIP positions. The light end is the position where the switch is pushed to.

Warning: a bad conﬁguration may cause serious damage in the NetCom+or the connected device.

Oﬀ (Bottom) On (Top)

(a) DIP Switch Description

Line Mode, Comment S1 S2 S3 S4 Switch Positions

Conﬁguration via Serial Port1Oﬀ Oﬀ Oﬀ Oﬀ

Factory Settings

Oﬀ Oﬀ Oﬀ On

Selected by Software

Oﬀ Oﬀ On On

RS232 Operation On Oﬀ Oﬀ Oﬀ

RS422

4-wire Operation On Oﬀ On Oﬀ

4-wire with Rx-Termination On Oﬀ On On

RS485

4,5

4-wire Operation On On On Oﬀ

4-wire with Rx-Termination On On On On

2-wire Operation On On Oﬀ Oﬀ

2-wire with Termination On On Oﬀ On

(b) DIP Switch Conﬁgurations

Table 15: DIP Switches

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Note 1: »Conﬁguration via Serial Port« is only eﬀective on port 1 of the NetCom+Server. Note 2: Factory Settings are restored on Power-Up/Reset of the NetCom+. Note 3: The Master DIP switches conﬁgure all serial ports of a NetCom+to a common

operation mode. If diversity in line operation modes is intended, the switch must be set to »Selected by Software«, and the conﬁguration may be done via Serial Port, Telnet, Web browser or SNMP.

Note 4: Line operation modes of RS422 and RS485 are not available on NetCom Plus

111 / 211 /411 / 811 (incl. POE).

Note 5: In RS485 mode the NetCom+performs the required activation and disabling of

the RS485 transmitter by an internal automatic. Application software does not have to perform special operations.

USB–COM Plus modules may be added for port expansion. These are either conﬁgured by their own DIP switches. Or when the 4- and 8-port modules are set for conﬁguration by software, the operation mode is controlled by the NetCom Plus in the same way as with the internal ports.

3.2 Serial Signal Assignment

It is of course important to know the exact location of the serial signals in the conﬁgured mode. Here is the table for the DSub-9 male connector. For RS232 the assignment is the same as on any PC (Com1/2).

Pin RS232 RS422/485 4-wire RS485 2-wire 1 DCD Tx− (A) Data− (A)

2 RxD Tx+ (B) Data+ (B) 3 TxD Rx+ (B) 4 DTR Rx− (A) 5 GND GND GND 6 DSR 7 RTS 8 CTS 9 RI

Table 16: Signal Assignment DSub-9 male

Figure 10: Connector

DSub-9 male

Please note the GND signal in RS422 and RS485 modes. This signal must also be connected be- tween the serial devices. So in reality there is neither a 2-wire nor a 4-wire connection. With the ex- ception of very special conﬁgurations, a serial cable without GND violates the speciﬁcations for RS 422 and RS485. Signal RI is only available in RS 232 mode on NetCom Plus 111 /113 / 211 / 213.

On USB–COM Plus modules used for Port Expansion the signal assignment is the same as on NetCom Plus. Also signal RI is only available with one and two ports.

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3.3 RS422/485 Electrical Conﬁguration

In typical RS422 and RS 485 installations certain electric conditions have to be conﬁgured. Simply connecting cables is not enough to fulﬁll the speciﬁcations of RS422 and RS 485.

For ease of installations the NetCom Plus Serial Device Servers provide the function for often used Termination. This is activated by selecting the appropriate line operation mode via DIP Switches (table 15) or by software. The electrical properties of USB–COM Plus serial ports are identical.

3.3.1 Termination Resistors

The use of long communication lines in RS422 and RS485 mode requires the installation of ter- mination resistors. These must match the impedance of the cable. Typical cables in Twisted-Pair conﬁguration have an impedance of about 120Ω. In RS422 and RS485 4-wire this resistor has to be placed at the end(s) far from the sender, in RS485 2-wire the typical conﬁguration requires one resistor at each end of the cable.

The NetCom Plus Serial Device Servers provide a suitable termination resistor integrated in the line drivers, activation is done by selecting the appropriate operation mode. For values of impedance other than 120Ω the resistors have to be installed directly on the cable.

3.3.2 BIAS Function

RS485 requires a BIAS option for the communication lines. This will guarantee stable electrical levels on the cables, even at times when no station is transmitting data. Without BIAS there will be noise on the cable, and sometimes receivers can not detect the ﬁrst characters of a beginning communication.

The NetCom Plus Serial Device Servers do not need an explicit BIAS function. With termination active the idle state of the transmission line is at 0V, which is recognized as a positive level (logic one) in the receiver circuit. Other devices may require explicit BIAS for a higher voltage at idle state, e.g. 100mV. In such situation attach that function directly to the cable.

3.4 Serial Port Simple Settings

There is one set of 4 DIPswitches to conﬁgure the operation mode of the NetCom Plus Device. This switch is the Master conﬁguration for each serial port. All ports operate in the same mode, unless the DIP switches conﬁgure for software setting. Before connecting a serial device, the serial port conﬁguration must be completed.

Warning : a bad conﬁguration may cause serious damage in the NetCom+or the connected device. To avoid these problems, it is recommended not to connect a device to the serial ports in the ﬁrst installation. The serial ports should be conﬁgured for RS232. This is done by setting the DIP switches like this example.

Figure 11: DIP NetCom

Plus

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3.5 Digital Input/Output

This function is only available on NetCom Plus 811 DIO. The input signals are optically isolated from the system, and output function is realized by relay.

3.5.1 Input Connection

Figure 12: Terminal Block

Input

The input uses a wet contact. There are two connector clamps per input signal, each pair marked by the number from 1 to 8. The symbol around the numbers represents a push button to connect both clamps together. The right clamp provides a voltage of roughly 5V at low current. When this supply is connected to the left clamp, the input signal changes status. Usually such is done using a push button or a switch, but a relay output will also do quite ﬁne.

3.5.2 Output Connection

Figure 13: Terminal Block

Output

The output is controlled by a relay, providing three clamps on the Terminal Block. The center clamp is the common signal, and marked by the number from 1 to 8. By default (system is oﬀ, or output is set as logic One) the relay connects the common signal to the right clamped marked with the letter ’Ö’. When the relay is programmed to logic Zero, the connection to the right clamp is interrupted, instead the common signal connects to the left clamp marked with the letter ’S’. These relay control either 2 A at 30V DC, or 0.5 A at 125VAC.

3.6 Network

The NetCom Plus and NetCom Plus POE connect to Ethernet, while the NetCom Plus with WLAN option may use either WLAN or Ethernet at customers choice. By factory settings both interfaces are enabled, and the priority is set for Ethernet (i.e. via cable). If no cable is connected here, the Wireless interface is active. Otherwise the server communicates via Ethernet. Both interfaces use the same MAC Address and IP Address, to allow for seamless switch-over from cable to wireless operation. The NetCom Plus with WLAN option Servers do not perform a DHCP request when the WLAN interface becomes active.

3.6.1 Ethernet and LED

The connector for Ethernet is the usual RJ45. Simply connect it to your (switching) Hub. Because the Gigabit Ethernet has Auto-MDI(X) function, a direct cable or a cross-over cable may both be used.

When the connect is done the Link LED on NetCom Plus (orange) will light. When data traﬃc occurs on the network, this LED will blink. It depends on your network whether a 100/10 Mbit or a 1000 Mbit connect will be established. A 100/10 Mbit net causes the Speed LED on NetCom Plus (green) to light, with 1000 Mbit it will remain dark.

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Red LED Orange LED Green LED Status

Oﬀ – – Device oﬀ, no power On Oﬀ Oﬀ No connection On On Oﬀ 1000 Mbit connection established On Blink Oﬀ 1000 Mbit data transfer (traﬃc) On On On 100/10 Mbit connection established On Blink On 100/10 Mbit data transfer (traﬃc)

Table 17: LED Function

When the ﬁrmware is completely started, the NetCom Plus becomes operational. This is shown to the user by two events: The LED for power (red) shortly blinks, i.e. it is Oﬀ and then On again. At the same time the Ready LED (RDY, green) lights and stays On.

3.6.2 WLAN Conﬁguration

The pre-deﬁned operation mode of Wireless LAN is as Access Point, any computer with WLAN equipment may contact the NetCom Plus with WLAN option. The conﬁguration of the NetCom Plus is done with the tools described later. This is the most easy way of installation.

However the pre-deﬁned conﬁguration is not encrypted. As one result any station can read the data transferred to the NetCom Plus via WLAN, this also includes the passwords. Therefore the recommended method is to use the Ethernet connector for the ﬁrst conﬁguration. Or in case of doubt, use the ﬁrst serial port to conﬁgure the NetCom Plus.

The conﬁguration of the WLAN parameters should follow in a later step. This is especially the case, if encryption or certain other parameters require special conﬁguration.

The parameter conﬁguration of WLAN is the same for the internal WLAN Kit and a supported external adapter.

3.6.3 WLAN Antenna

The connector used for the WLAN Antenna is known as SMA-Reverse. This is a standard type to allow for simple connection of diﬀerent equipment. Just ﬁt the supplied antenna by carefully screwing it to the connector. You are free to connect a cable and a diﬀerent antenna of your choice, as long as it is designed for WLAN.

3.6.4 WLAN LED

In WEP mode the Blue LED for WLAN lights if the NetCom Plus detects an operational WLAN it can connect to. In WPA mode the Blue LED lights when the NetCom+successfully connected to a WLAN. And of course the LED lights when the NetCom+operates as Access Point.

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3.7 Power Supply

The NetCom Plus devices are powered by a single 9-54V power supply. It requires 70 mA up to 750 mA of current, depending on the device type and voltage supplied. Connect the cable to the Terminal Block at the rear side of NetCom Plus.

The NetCom Plus 411/ 811 POE devices are either powered by a single 15-54V power supply, in the same way as the NetCom Plus and NetCom Plus with WLAN option devices; this also applies to the NetCom Plus 811 DIO. The NetCom Plus 413/813 POE devices use the standard 9-54V supply. Or the NetCom Plus POE devices are powered via the network cable, connected to an Ethernet switch with PoE function as IEEE 802.3af. This switch is referenced as the PSE (Power Sourcing Equipment), while the NetCom Plus POE is the PD (Powered Device). It indicates itself as a Class 0 device when sourced by the PSE. An external power adapter has priority over the PoE function.

3.7.1 Terminal Block Power

The Terminal Block power connector receives positive volt- age on the right (V+) pin. The center (V-) pin receives ground voltage, and Field GND (FG) connects to the case. Connect FG to Protective Earth Rail. In NetCom Plus and NetCom Plus with WLAN option de- vices the V- connects to the case. V- is isolated in the NetCom Plus 411/811 POE and NetCom Plus 811 DIO devices.

Figure 14: Power Terminal Block

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4 Windows Virtual COM Driver

This chapter covers the use of NetCom+Devices via Virtual Com Ports installed by the supplied driver software for Windows. Sections 4.1 to 4.3 describe in details the process of driver installation and removal, as well as updating. This ﬁrst part here is for quick installation, so only the common options are covered.

Section 4.4 provides the details of NetCom Plus Manager and also the options available with the Virtual Com Ports.

4.1 Installation Procedure

Before starting installation, it is essential to have an IP conﬁguration ready for the NetCom+Device to install. You may read the TCP/IP Description (section 13) below. The default conﬁguration is based on DHCP, which is ﬁne in many networks. If in doubt, please ask your Network Administrator for help. Further it is assumed the network access is functional. It is recommended to use Ethernet via Hub or Cross-Over cable for conﬁguration.

The following description is based on Windows10. The installation on other conﬁgurations of Windows is similar. The installation of drivers is described ﬁrst. This is followed by a procedure to verify a correct installation. The last part of this section is about the uninstall or update processes of drivers and tools.

Drivers are provided for Windows XP up to Windows 10, Windows Server 2003 up to 2008 R2. The x86 and x64 Editions have separate drivers.

The drivers use the IP Address of NetCom+Servers to operate. So the conﬁguration of the device should avoid to change that over time. This is either done via a static IP Address, or by proper conﬁguration of the DHCP server. In the second case the DHCP server shall recognize the NetCom+by its MAC Address, and assign the same IP Address each time the device sends a request. All available DHCP Server products provide such a function, even in SOHO routers.

4.1.1 Start the Installation Wizard

Figure 15: Installation Wizard

This is the Installation Wizard, it is named VSNSE- TUPPLUS.EXEa. You’ll ﬁnd it on the CD-ROM shipped with the NetCom+, in the directory respon- sible for your operating system. The drivers are also available on the Internet, in the latest version. Start this program to install the drivers.

VSNSETUPA64PLUS.EXE in x64 Editions of Windows

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4.1.1.1 User Account Control (UAC) In modern versions of Windows OS typical conﬁgurations require to conﬁrm the start of software to change the system conﬁguration.

(a) UAC in Windows 7 (b) UAC in Windows 10

Figure 16: User Account Control

Since a change of system conﬁguration is intended by the driver installation, conﬁrm to start the software.

Figure 17: NetCom+Driver Installation

4.1.1.2 Methods of Installation The installation program oﬀers three diﬀerent ways of installa- tion. The ﬁrst option is the most common used function, a Complete Installation. All driver

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ﬁles and tools are copied to the Windows system, and installed in the Start Menu. Further the drivers are installed in the system, and the network is searched for available NetCom+. The serial ports on these devices are installed as Virtual Com Ports in the system. The second option will Install Tools and Drivers. However the network is not searched for NetCom+Devices. And of course no serial ports are installed in the system. This function is designed to prepare a computer for use of NetCom+Virtual Com Ports, but the ﬁnal installation shall be skipped for some reasons. For example the computer shall be shipped to a customer, and the ﬁnal installation is planned to happen there. Finally the third option is to Install Tools only, no drivers. At time of writing these tools are the NetCom Manager, as well as the uninstall and repair functions. This function should be selected when the use of Virtual Com Port drivers is not intended. The NetCom+Devices may be used in many diﬀerent operation modes covered later (6).

There are also some Hyperlinks, opening access to more recent driver versions.

This part of the manual documents the Complete Installation, so click this option.

Figure 18: Start Driver Installation

4.1.1.3 Proceed Installation A target folder for a ﬁle copy is requested. The tools and driver ﬁles are installed here. The tools will appear in the Start Menu, so a sub-folder of your Program Files is suggested. Just click the OK button.

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