chakorules
Member
I've almost got my own question answered but I figured I'd think out loud.
I am designing a machine that is located in another state:
me --->internet--->other plant--->my provided router--->their internal network---->SLC 5/05
I am pretty sure all I need to do is convice the customer to give our supplied router a dedicated IP address.
So the way I see it:
I will start RS Linx, connect to the internet, enter the IP address of the router that we supplied, and the same router will have a real world internet approved IP address that my customer assigned. Inside the router, NAT will be enabled, which will direct my request from the router, to the SLC 5/05 which has an IP address of 192.168.0.1. This is the companies internal network IP structure.
But what if the company can not provide a dedicated IP address for my router? What other options do I have then? My customer has already strictly said, no dial in modems...a little wierd, but that was the request. So without the aid of a dial in modem, what other options do I have? Actually they asked that they did not want a dedicated phone line to the PLC, but they did not say I couldn't VPN into there network with my modem.
So I guess my second option would be use my own dialup modem and VPN into their internal network, provided that the IT person will create a VPN account on their domain controller server. However this option is not using the internet...
Is there a third option? I've heard something like using RS Linx Gateway, what does this product gain me? Anything?
I am designing a machine that is located in another state:
me --->internet--->other plant--->my provided router--->their internal network---->SLC 5/05
I am pretty sure all I need to do is convice the customer to give our supplied router a dedicated IP address.
So the way I see it:
I will start RS Linx, connect to the internet, enter the IP address of the router that we supplied, and the same router will have a real world internet approved IP address that my customer assigned. Inside the router, NAT will be enabled, which will direct my request from the router, to the SLC 5/05 which has an IP address of 192.168.0.1. This is the companies internal network IP structure.
But what if the company can not provide a dedicated IP address for my router? What other options do I have then? My customer has already strictly said, no dial in modems...a little wierd, but that was the request. So without the aid of a dial in modem, what other options do I have? Actually they asked that they did not want a dedicated phone line to the PLC, but they did not say I couldn't VPN into there network with my modem.
So I guess my second option would be use my own dialup modem and VPN into their internal network, provided that the IT person will create a VPN account on their domain controller server. However this option is not using the internet...
Is there a third option? I've heard something like using RS Linx Gateway, what does this product gain me? Anything?