# Connect to CompactLogix via NET-ENI **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [December 17, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778 "2019-12-17T20:52:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michael.walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@michael.walter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.walter)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/1 "2019-12-17T20:52:30Z")
i need to communicate to a compactlogix via 1761-NET-ENI. just typing in the IP address doesn’t do it. i don’t think this is currently supported and it looks like in the notes you guys are just getting a chance to test? Please let me know if anyone finds anything out ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/e/e481f25182c68cdc735cbfee67648438c13433b2.png) ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/2 "2019-12-17T22:02:26Z")
Try each of the following connection paths: ```auto 1,1,1,0 2,1,1,0 3,1,1,0 ``` If you’ll look at the device properties (in RSLinx) and report the device type and product code, I’ll check the EDS file to confirm. ---
**Author:** ![michael.walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@michael.walter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.walter)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/3 "2019-12-18T12:04:56Z")
none of those worked in the connection path. i can’t get to any of the properties because i’m VPN’d to a client network and only on the gateway server, which i can’t connect to but i can see the gateway webpage, can i access the ip address. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/4 "2019-12-18T13:40:11Z")
Sorry, you showed an RSLinx screenshot. I assumed you had access to a copy of RSLinx connected to the NET-ENI in question. ---
**Author:** ![michael.walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@michael.walter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.walter)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/5 "2019-12-18T14:33:49Z")
no reason to be sorry, by posting that picture (provided to me by the client) I was setting myself up by not saying I couldn’t check anything with linx. do you work for inductive or have experience with this NET-ENI module with use in ignition in the past? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/6 "2019-12-18T14:45:02Z")
I do not work for IA (see my profile). However, I am a registered vendor for Ethernet/IP, as I have done custom ‘C’ implementations for customers. And a custom implementation as a [third-party module](https://inductiveautomation.com/moduleshowcase/module/automation-professionals-llc-ethernetip-class-1-communications) for Ignition. I haven’t used a NET-ENI in few years, and not with Ignition. But I am rather familiar with how the protocol is _ **supposed** _ to work. ---
**Author:** ![michael.walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@michael.walter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.walter)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/7 "2020-05-14T20:12:25Z")
Any follow-up on ignition support’s side as to issues with this before and/or has it even been tested. this is to a legacy compactlogix ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/8 "2020-05-14T23:59:17Z")
Well, if you want an official response from Ignition support, you’ll need to ask Ignition support. That would be [https://support.inductiveautomation.com/](https://support.inductiveautomation.com/). This forum is not official support. That said, the CompactLogix models without built-in ethernet are not officially supported, and I don’t recall any successes with the NET-ENI. I was hoping at the time you tried that you’d change that. ---
**Author:** ![michael.walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@michael.walter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.walter)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/9 "2020-05-15T14:40:51Z")
Ok, sometimes I see support employees post on here so thought it was worth a shot. Phone support wasn’t that helpful last time, it basically went down the road of that they could not help any further without a wire shark snapshot to the plc to try and see what might be hanging up ignition from seeing it ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/10 "2020-05-15T15:01:15Z")
What’s the connection path in studio/rslogix 5000 when you go online with this device? I’m not really sure what’s happening in that device tree. I can’t tell if you need a connection path here and what it would be. Connections via NET-ENI are so difficult to get working. Sometimes the stupid things just need to be power cycled before they work. ---
**Author:** ![michael.walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@michael.walter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.walter)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/11 "2020-05-15T15:59:20Z")
Is the first post not what you’re looking for, because logix is just going to connect the same way using rslinx ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-to-compactlogix-via-net-eni/30778/12 "2020-05-15T16:15:31Z")
I was talking about this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/d/d22f693e1300bdbb501f53bc73c04e4fd8325107.png) Just wondering what that path ended up looking like.