We are developing a special purpose board on which we hope to place 4 W7100A devices. Our intent is to use them to connect Ethernet ports coming into our system to console ports of various products attached to our system. We’ve been looking at the device and have some questions.
Areas of most concern:
Configuration of MAC Addresses and IP Addresses
Reference SW - Customization
I read that the development board/evaluation Kit comes with the W7100A preprogrammed with Serial to Ethernet firmware and MAC Address. Are we able to order individual chips the same way, with preprogrammed firmware, MAC Address, and, possibly, defined IP configurations (more than just base S2E)?
Do we get the source code for the S2E firmware? We would like our system to be set up to just run the S2E application but we would need to have MAC Addresses and IP Addresses already configured at power up. We do not see a way of performing the configuration from an external controller or memory device. Is there a direct way of configuring these parameters from a uC or EEPROM?
Has the W7100A with S2E firmware been tested against the WIZ1000 product? Our application here is Serial Tunneling over Ethernet with the one end connected to a PC and the other end is our system with W7100As connected to other equipment.
Has the W7100A with S2E firmware been tested against other vendors’ Serial to Ethernet Converter products? Can you provide a list of compatible products?
We truly appreciate your help with these questions.
Thank you,
Brian
Thank you for the response and the information Lawrence.
From wiznet.co.kr/product-item/w7100-s2e/ it looks like the W7100-S2E comes with a MAC address. How is that provided? Is it part of the firmware that is loaded into the device?
For the W7100-s2e how do we get it to load the IP address? Does that require an EEPROM?
Thanks,
I found the programming guide, but there isn’t the firmware file.
In other discussions they talk about 4.06 version…is this the last version?
Because with 4.06 version, the chip sometimes has communication problems in a LAN network where there’s also a Ethercat network. The chip stops to work so I need to restart the communication.
Thanks Lawrence,
I’m already using the last version (4.06), I was looking for a new version because the chip sometimes has communication problems in a LAN network where there’s also a Ethercat network. The chip stops to work so I need to restart the communication.