About the Digi One IAP Flexible Industrial Automation support
Digi One IAP Family User Guide
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n Several methods to encapsulate serial data across a network, including Modbus/TCP,
Ethernet/ IP, Allen-Bradley Ethernet, TCP sockets, UDP sockets, and COM Port redirection
(using RealPort).
Serial port and network protocol support
The following figure depicts serial port and network protocol support.
The following table provides a list of serial-port protocols and compatible network protocols. The table
also lists which protocols support multi-mastering, a feature that allows multiple masters, each of
which may use a different network protocol, to manage a slave simultaneously.
Serial port protocol Network protocols Multi-master support
Modbus ASCII and
Modbus RTU
n Modbus/TCP
n TCP Sockets
n UDP Sockets
n RealPort COM Port
redirection
Yes