Perle Systems SCS8C DC User Manual

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Serial Port Profiles

The UDP profile configures a serial port to send or receive data to/from the LAN using the UDP 
protocol.

You can use UDP profile in the following two basic modes. The first is to send data coming from the 
serial device to one or more UDP listeners on the LAN. The second is to accept UDP datagrams 
coming from one or more UDP senders on the LAN and forward this data to the serial device. You 
can also configure a combination of both which will allow you to send and receive UDP data to/from 
the LAN.

Sample UDP Sockets configuration screen.

Four individual entries are provided to allow you greater flexibility to specify how data will be 
forwarded to/from the serial device. All four entries support the same configuration parameters. You 
can configure one or more of the entries as needed. 
The first thing you need to configure for an entry is the “Direction” of the data flow. The following 
options are available;

z

Disabled - UDP service not enabled.

z

LAN to Serial - This setting will allow UDP data to be received from one or more hosts on the 
LAN and forwarded to the serial device attached to this serial port.

z

Serial to LAN - This setting will allow data originating from the serial device attached to this 
serial port to be sent to one or more hosts on the LAN using UDP datagrams.

z

Both - Allows for data to flow from the serial device to the LAN and from the LAN to the serial 
device.