I have a networking maze that I am trying to navigate. I have Ignition communicating with a Rockwell PLC at 172.16.x.x. This PLC has a processor in slot 0 and everything is working as expected.
On the backplane there is an ethernet module in slot 3. This module communicates to 8 different Rockwell PLCs at 192.168.10.x. to 192.168.80.x
I can create a connection to the ethernet module in slot 3 and am able get status information from the module. I'm looking to create a connection to the PLCs through this module to reach the 192.168.x.x addresses. I feel like it should be possible through the connectionPath parameter but when I try this I only seem to be able to reach the ethernet module.
I am trying to follow this guide without success.
https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Allen-Bradley+Connection+Paths
In my main plc on the 172 network I have a series of msg instructions to pull data using a CIP data table read with a path of:
IO_Network, 2, 192.168.80.10, 1, 0
where IO_Network is the slot 3 from above.
I could expand this stepping stone method to add the additional data I want but it would be more organized and straight-forward to establish a device connection path to each end unit.