After installation, access the Lon tunnel configuration dialog from the Windows Control Panel. As shown for an example session in Figure B.3, all fields require a valid entry.
Fields in this dialog are described as follows:
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Lon Port
The “virtual” LON port provided by this tunnel client. This should not conflict with any existing LON port assignment, as known to Windows, for a physical LON adapter (e.g. LON1).
When you tunnel from a LON-based Windows application, you specify this “virtual” LON port.
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Host Address
The IP address (or hostname) of the tunnel server, meaning the target JACE running a station with a LonNetwork, TunnelService, and LonTunnel.
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Tunnel Name
The
LONndevice name (identifier) of the JACE’s LonNetwork to access. This isLON1in most cases (any JACE with only a single LON port). However, if the target JACE host has multiple LON ports (supports multiple LonNetworks), you could enterLON2, for example. -
User Name
User in the target JACE station, where this station user must have admin write permissions for the station’s TunnelService and child LonTunnel(s).
The TunnelService uses “basic authentication” for login on any client connection (Lon tunnel or serial tunnel), so we recommend
you create a special user in the station to use (only) for all Lon or serial tunnel access. For configuration details, see Best security practices for tunneling.
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Password
Password for this station user.
The password is not encrypted when passed to the station (see Caution above).
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Interactive (checkbox)
If checked, this dialog reappears each time a LON-based application first opens this “virtual” LON port. If cleared, this dialog displays only if an open fails to establish a connection to the tunnel server (as stored from last entry). Typically, you leave Interactive checked.
When this dialog appears interactively, the Lon Port setting is read-only. To change that, you must access the Lon tunneling applet from the Windows Control Panel.