S7-300 Profibus DP to Ignition? Helmholz NETLink

[dano38291]

Hello,
I have legacy piece of equipment with a Siemens S7-300 (CPU314C 2 DP).
It appears others have used a NETLink on S7-300's. Has anyone else had success with using a NETLink to convert from Profibus DP on an S7-300 to Ignition S7 TCP driver?

Also curious about the Ignition Driver. Appears the Helmholz NETLink device converts into an "S7-TCP/IP" or "RFC1006", is this what the Ignition S7 TCP/IP driver uses?

Netlink adapter for S7-300

Hey All, Has anyone attempted to use the current Siemens OPC driver from Ignition and the Netlink Profibus to ethernet product from Helmholz to connect to S7-300 CPU’s. This looks like a very good solution for data collection from Siemens processors without an ethernet interface. helmholz.de/prod.d,80_92_93.html?p_id=84

https://www.helmholz.de/fileadmin/documents/Technische_Dokumentationen/700-88X-MPI21_NETLink_Ethernet_Varianten/Manual_NETLink-Ethernet-Products_2_EN.PDF
See Section 3

If this works need to figure out how to add Ignition to NETLink's Application Examples.
https://www.helmholz.de/fileadmin/documents/Technische_Dokumentationen/700-88X-MPI21_NETLink_Ethernet_Varianten/Application_Examples_NETLink-PRO-family_7.pdf

[chi]

We are using the NetLink and a couple of similar devices with Ignition’s driver without problems. RFC 1006 is the connection protocol used by Siemens.
I usually plug those devices to the MPI port. Using them in an ProfiBus Network requires carefully configuration.