This section describes how to configure the Ethernet communication module to act as an EtherNet/IP adapter, using a functionality called Local Slave. The communication module supports up to three instances of local slaves.
In its role as a EtherNet/IP adapter, the module initiates no messages. Instead, it responds to:
implicit messaging requests from a scanner device in the network, and
explicit messaging requests—directed to the communication module’s assembly object—from other devices on the network
NOTE: If no local slave instance is enabled, the communication module can respond to explicit messaging requests directed at its CIP objects other than the assembly object.
