Ok I'm racking my brain on this. Maybe I'm missing something but I could really use to help. Google gave me many links to here but none of them exactly answered my question. Here's what I have. I have two PLCs on two separate networks that I want to send messages back and forth on. For right now we'll call them 192.168.1.x and 10.10.10.x. This is in a plant so there is networking done behind the scenes that I can't see but those two networks can talk to each other. Right now from my laptop I can ping both networks. So PLC A is on the 192 network and PLC B is on the 10 network. I can see both of them through RSLinx. Is it possible to message between them and if so how is it done? For my current test I have an L72 that is doing a PLC5 read. I have a PLC5 on the same network and the PLC5 read works just fine. My ENBT is called ENBT so my path is ENBT, 2, 192.168.1.5. Now my second PLC5 is on 10.10.10.5. Would be path be ENBT, 2, 10.10.10.5 (which isn't working) or would it be something else? I also noticed that the browse button doesn't do much. Is there a setting to get that to actually browse the network? Over the past 24 hours I've read up on networking, watched videos, and as long as the default gateways are setup properly (which I believe they are) this should work.
So for an answer I'm either looking for the proper way to do it, or to be told nope it just doesn't work that way. In which case I'll just have to buy a second ENBT and put it on the 10.10.10.x network. I've seen that done before. But my IT guy says that since you can ping 10.10.10.x from 192.168.1.x you should be able to message between the two. Any info would be great. Any tech notes on why or why it isn't possible would also be great to read and learn from. Thanks.
So for an answer I'm either looking for the proper way to do it, or to be told nope it just doesn't work that way. In which case I'll just have to buy a second ENBT and put it on the 10.10.10.x network. I've seen that done before. But my IT guy says that since you can ping 10.10.10.x from 192.168.1.x you should be able to message between the two. Any info would be great. Any tech notes on why or why it isn't possible would also be great to read and learn from. Thanks.