I need to be able to message some data between a number of micrologix 1000s and a flexlogix 5434. I've done a good bit of PLC5 DH+ messaging in the past but the flexlogix format is not familliar to me. The software I have is the RSLogix 5000 MINI which will only work with the flexlogix. I've went thru several of the books, AB's knowledge base and here on line. In the software there are some message examples but they are for the contrologix and will not work with the MINI software. So heres where I'm at. I have an ethernet switch connected to my laptop, on this I have the flexlogix with an ethernet card installed. On the RS232 port of the flexlogix I have a nul modem cable connected to a net-aic+, from the net-aic+ thru the DH485 port I have a cable connected to another net-aic+. At the end of the last aic I have a micrologix 1000 plc. With RSLinx I am able to look thru the flexlogix backplane to the RS232 port which is now set to DH485 and see the micrologix. With RSLogix 500 I am able to upload/download and communicate with the micrologix. My problem is when I try to set up a message in the flexlogix I can't get it to communicate with the micrologix. In the message setup under the communications tab, I have it set for DH+, channel A, destination link 0, source link 1, destination node 0. When I go to set the message path, I click on the browser and all that is selectable is the 1788ENBT\A, flexbuss local, and flexbuss local2. If I select local, I get an error "reply data too large". If I put in say 0,1 or something like this it takes it but then gives an error "connection failure". One thing that might help me is if someone could take the Message sample file and convert it from contrologix to a Flexlogix5434 so I could actually look at it with my MINI software. Any help getting started would be apreciated.