Ignition TCP-Lantronix UDS1100 serial interface -- Can you assign two TCP ports?

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I have an application where my customer is using a Lantronix UDS 1100 serial to ethernet device gateway to bring scale information into a PC for a third-party application to consume. They've asked us to build this application out in Ignition to replace the existing third-party application. We'd like to run both systems in parallel until it is tested out, but there is a challenge.

The Lantronix uses a program called 'Comm Port Replicator' that allows them to direct the ethernet data from the gateway to a virtual COM port on the PC. The TCP port on the Lantronix is 10001.

We would like to connect Ignition to this same Lantronix device using the TCP driver connected to a second TCP port and run them in parallel. Has anyone ever done this, and could you share what steps you took to accomplish it.

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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You generally cannot do this. Even if you could, any serial data transmitted from the two connections would mix on the serial line, corrupting it.

Also, Ignition will need you to configure the Lantronix for a raw, preconfigured TCP port, not the virtual COM port emulation.

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