Performance
- Acts as a single simulated Allen-Bradley PLC-2
- Up to 256 devices may connect to the simulated PLC-2 at any time
- Sockets used by incoming connections are aged according to activity level
- All major memory and data types supported
Supported Devices
- Allen-Bradley PLCs programmed to send PLC-2 type commands.
Available Languages
- English
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
Application Support
- DDE Format CF_Text and AdvancedDDE
- NIO Interface for iFIX
- OPC .NET Service (OPC .NET) Version 1.00
- OPC Alarms and Events (OPC AE) Version 1.10
- OPC Data Access (OPC DA) Versions 1.0a, 2.0, 2.05a, and 3.0
- OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Clients
- SuiteLink and FastDDE for Wonderware
Release Notes
6.11.718.0
12/21/2021
- Removed non-inclusive terms out of respect for users of our software.
- Renamed this driver (from Allen-Bradley Slave Ethernet/ Allen-Bradley Unsolicited Ethernet) in compliance with updated terminology.
6.2.460.0
7/6/2017
- Added Chinese language support.
6.0.2107.0
11/15/2016
- Enhanced the driver to support a message length of 4096 bytes per request.
- Added German language support.
- Added Japanese language support.
5.18.662.0
6/23/2015
- Extended address range support to octal 77777.
5.9.170
6/26/2012
- Logix LINT arrays no longer allow a data type of Date array.
- Fixed an issue with the reading of and writing to Logix LINT data.
- Fixed an issue with the reading of String type values that are less than 32 characters.
- Fixed an issue with the reading of and writing to the following array types: Char, Byte, Short, Word, Long, DWord, Float, and Double.
5.5.94.0
2/18/2011
- The driver will now check for License Activation upon receiving unsolicited communications.
5.1.71.0
10/21/2009
- Fixed issue where word order was being swapped on 32 Bit data types. Added a device prop to disable word swapping: "first word low".
Supported Device Details
Devices need not be PLC-2s. Consult your hardware programming manual.