# Ignition and Rockwell Emulate 5000/RSLinx Classic Gateway **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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")
> [@OPC-DA to RSLinx Classic (Emulated PLC)](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-da-to-rslinx-classic-emulated-plc/11667): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-and-rockwell-emulate-5000-rslinx-classic-gateway/24264)._