RSLinx OPC driver and Ignition AB driver on same Gateway?

Ignition
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I would like to know if you have a recommendation regarding using both drivers in the same Gateway. I am communicating to MicroLogix using NET-ENI and to a Prosoft card only supported by RSLinx, therefore I installed OPC-COM module and configured RSLinx.
I have some SLC/505 in the same network which work with Ignition drivers, since I have to use RSLinx anyway I wonder if its best to use only RSLinx (which has to go through the OPC-COM wrapper) or if I have a best performance if I use Ignition driver when the device is supported?

Any advise would be very much appreciated.

Everardo

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Yeah this should be fine.

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It’s fine to have them side by side. Should you only use RSLinx, or should you use Ignition’s drivers when possible? It probably doesn’t matter a lot, but I would say that in this case, it’s probably better to use Ignition’s drivers if you can, and just use RSLinx when you must. I’m mostly saying this based on a consideration of how the underlying architecture works for both, and it’s probably unlikely that you would actually run into any problem either way, but that’s my suggestion.

Regards,

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