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Why doesn the ECOM use subnet mask or gateway address like the ECOM100?

April 26, 2017address ecom ecom100 Gateway mask subnet

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Why doesn the ECOM use subnet mask or gateway address like the ECOM100?

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Since the ECOM doesn’t do “master”-type communications, it doesn’t use the subnet mask or gateway address. Whatever talks to the ECOM will be using IPX or UDP/IP, and the ECOM simply swaps the destination and source addresses in the telegram and responds in this way, not “caring” about the subnet or gateway. However, the ECOM100 acts more like a conventional TCP/IP device. The ECOM100 has the capability to be a master and has a full-blown TCP stack inside. Thus, if it is to transmit to an IP address not on its subnet, it will, of course, transmit to its configured gateway address instead.