About Bacnet Comm: Network: Ip Port

The Ip Port container provides for BACnet Annex J communications as a BACnet/IP device. Note that most JACE controllers provide two Ethernet adapters: LAN1 (en0) or LAN2 (en1), therefore you should select the desired one in the Adapter property, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. Selecting Ethernet adapter to use for BacnetComm: Network: IpPort


Selecting Ethernet adapter to use for BacnetComm: Network: IpPort

Link binding is automatic to the IP address and the selected Ethernet adapter of the host Niagara platform. By default, the “conventional” UDP port 0xBAC0 (decimal 47808) is used, however, you can specify using another UDP port.

Figure 5 shows the Ip Port property sheet with its Link container expanded.

Figure 6. Property sheet view of Ip Port, Link container expanded


Property sheet view of Ip Port, Link container expanded

As with other Bacnet network ports, the Ip Port provides its own, independent Poll Scheduler (Poll Service). See “About poll components” in the Drivers Guide for more details. Also see About Bacnet Polling.

Link property “IP Device Type” allows for B/IP operation as a BBMD (BACnet Broadcast Management Device) or BACnet Foreign Device, or a standard BACnet device (the default). Remaining properties support further configuration as a BBMD or Foreign Device. For related BBMD and Foreign Device details, see BACnet/IP and BBMDs.