April-12th-2022, 08:49 AM
Ok I understand that you are using a PROFINET container from Hilscher in the netFIELD Connect edge gateway in order to communicate with a Siemens PLC as PROFINET IO device, is that right?
This PROFINET container supports basically two things:
1. Provisioning of the PROFINET IO device function and a gateway function for the IO to read/write them from/to an MQTT broker
2. Provisioning of an independent LAN interface (cifx0) on PROFINET side in order to send/receive any kind of TCP/IP frames
So without ever having tested of what you are requesting ... I would say that physically the netFIELD Connect device fulfils the basic requirements on the PROFINET communication side.
But now comes my main question: How do you realized the VPN connection? Hilscher does not provide any VPN container as the PROFINET container. Is that something you want to do your on your own?
This PROFINET container supports basically two things:
1. Provisioning of the PROFINET IO device function and a gateway function for the IO to read/write them from/to an MQTT broker
2. Provisioning of an independent LAN interface (cifx0) on PROFINET side in order to send/receive any kind of TCP/IP frames
So without ever having tested of what you are requesting ... I would say that physically the netFIELD Connect device fulfils the basic requirements on the PROFINET communication side.
But now comes my main question: How do you realized the VPN connection? Hilscher does not provide any VPN container as the PROFINET container. Is that something you want to do your on your own?
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