Re: Re: Clipsal questions - MSS100

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul

> I have mine set up as Nick suggested - cutting out the Redirector.
With
the old CBus
> software (pre-Toolkit), you had to use redirector and it was fiddly to
make it work
> (possibly because the old software was DOS based and the pseudo COM
ports
behaved a little

Ooops  i didnt realise this could be done......sounds like a better way to
do it.....

> However, I also split Cgate and Toolkit - I run CGate2 on a linux box
for
reliability and
> tell Toolkit to connect to the remote cgate. Then it's the linux CGate
that talks to the
> MSS100 via the IP address.

Do you have to have toolkit talk to the mss100 via cgate2...?? or can you
talk direct ...???

Thanks
Frank



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Clipsal questions - MSS100


>
> >
> > > - Go into toolkit (1.1.5) and tell it to talk to an IP
address
> > > rather than the COM port it uses at the moment.
> >
> > No.........setup for a com port in my case com4.......
> >
> > Frank
>
> I have mine set up as Nick suggested - cutting out the Redirector.
With
the old CBus
> software (pre-Toolkit), you had to use redirector and it was fiddly to
make it work
> (possibly because the old software was DOS based and the pseudo COM
ports
behaved a little
> differently from real ports). CBus Toolkit now lets you specify the IP
address and port
> (3001) of the MSS100 directly. This feels simpler and is probably more
reliable as a
> result.
>
> However, I also split Cgate and Toolkit - I run CGate2 on a linux box
for
reliability and
> tell Toolkit to connect to the remote cgate. Then it's the linux CGate
that talks to the
> MSS100 via the IP address.
>
> Paul
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <nick@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:22 AM
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Clipsal questions - MSS100
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > You will need the Lantronics
> > > > redirector software and also
> > > > ezwebcon ..from
> > > > the lantronics site...
> > > >
> > > > There might be other ways
> > > > to configure it
> > >
> > > My brain is going along the lines of:
> > >
> > > - Attach the MSS100 to my network;
> > > - Give it an IP address (manually or by DHCP);
> > > - Go into toolkit (1.1.5) and tell it to talk to an IP
address
> > > rather than the COM port it uses at the moment.
> > >
> > > Am I being too simplistic, will that look too different from
> > > the "proper" Ethernet CBus device?
> > >
> > > Kwong, some technical thoughts needed!!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Nick
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