# Ignition and Rockwell Emulate 5000/RSLinx Classic Gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-and-rockwell-emulate-5000-rslinx-classic-gateway/24264>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 19, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-and-rockwell-emulate-5000-rslinx-classic-gateway/24264 "2019-04-19T20:00:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![hophead6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@hophead6](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hophead6)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-and-rockwell-emulate-5000-rslinx-classic-gateway/24264/1 "2019-04-19T20:00:41Z")

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Will Ignition read tags from an Emulate 5000 (v30) controller using RS Classic Gateway 4.1? I’ve read a lot of old threads here and elsewhere and still not sure about the answer.

So far, I have a successful connection to the local RSLinx OPC Server with the OPC-DA COM Connection. I can see the Linx OPC Servers and tags if I go to OPC Quick Client in the config menu. But now I’m at a roadblock. Is that as far as this goes with this combination of software?

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**Author:** ![hophead6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@hophead6](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hophead6)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-and-rockwell-emulate-5000-rslinx-classic-gateway/24264/2 "2019-04-20T00:12:01Z")

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As you can see, I can find all the tags in the Tag Browser and D&D them, but they all have errors…

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**Author:** ![hophead6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@hophead6](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hophead6)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-and-rockwell-emulate-5000-rslinx-classic-gateway/24264/3 "2019-04-20T03:12:04Z")

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> [@OPC-DA to RSLinx Classic (Emulated PLC)](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-da-to-rslinx-classic-emulated-plc/11667):
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> While doing testing I found a way to use the OPC-DA connection to create a link between 2 computers and read values from an RSLinx topic I had created to an emulated PLC. Note: Because this uses OPC-DA (because RSLinx does not yet support OPC-UA), this will only work on Windows (unless an OPC-DA client has been released for the linux version since last I used Ignition) Pre-requisites: Two computers (or VMs) that can communicate to each other using IP addresses and computer names. A computer …

Those instructions in the first post did it! Looks good now.
