Ignition and Rockwell Emulate 5000/RSLinx Classic Gateway

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OPC-DA to RSLinx Classic (Emulated PLC)

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.