PLC PC Communication - SLC5/05 and Linux

Hi
we r using a slc5/05 for control and a linux pc for datakeeping. Has anyone done an ethernet connection between the plc and linux pc?I would like to send and receive string data using tcp/ip. is it possible with a linux box. will we have any problem with the drivers?If anyone had done it b4 can u give a step by step procedure on how u did it and what hurdles u faced.Thanks a lot.Iam planning to use ABEL to do this.any suggestions

And we r using MySql to store data in the pc. Can i run both the MySql server and client in the same machine. Iam not clear on this concept. Should the client be running in the machine from which data is sent or can it run on the host machine.
jnp

nirmal said:

Hi
we r using a slc5/05 for control and a linux pc for datakeeping. Has anyone done an ethernet connection between the plc and linux pc?I would like to send and receive string data using tcp/ip. is it possible with a linux box. will we have any problem with the drivers?

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Something I hadn't seen before:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/libs/PLC-0.1.0.tar.gz

Ron Gage's excellent work:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/allenbradleyethernetutils/
Get it here:
ftp://ftp.rongage.org/pub/abel/

A few links:
http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=plc5+ethernet

And the PuffinProject in case ur (whatever happened to English?) interested:
http://www.puffinplc.org/

If anyone had done it b4 can u give a step by step procedure on how u did it and what hurdles u faced.Thanks a lot.Iam planning to use ABEL to do this.any suggestions

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So you already have abel? Well, what flavor of linux are you running? You might be more interested in the perl script (the PLC-0.1.0.tar.gz one).

And we r using MySql to store data in the pc. Can i run both the MySql server and client in the same machine. Iam not clear on this concept. Should the client be running in the machine from which data is sent or can it run on the host machine.
jnp

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From what I've seen of client-server proggies, you can run both at the same time. However, I have no experience with MySQL. This question would be better addressed at either:

http://ultra.litpixel.com:82/cgi-bin/lct/lct.pl

or:

http://www.linuxquestions.org

Both are excellent linux forums, LCT (ultra) being the smaller of the two by multiple orders of magnitude, but real friendly. And LinuxQuestions being almost as friendly and huge.


John

Re: Re: PLC PC Communication - SLC5/05 and Linux

rootboy said:

This question would be better addressed at either:

http://ultra.litpixel.com:82/cgi-bin/lct/lct.pl

or:

http://www.linuxquestions.org

Both are excellent linux forums, LCT (ultra) being the smaller of the two by multiple orders of magnitude, but real friendly. And LinuxQuestions being almost as friendly and huge.


John

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Don't forget control.com as well. It's been more than a year since I've been there...mainly for the reason that all they want to discuss is how much greater linux is than windows

Don't forget control.com as well. It's been more than a year since I've been there...mainly for the reason that all they want to discuss is how much greater linux is than windows

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Till now I thought this discussion only took a second.

Kind regards,