Firewall Settings

The TwinCAT IEC 61850/61400-25 server uses during the client/server communication (MMS mapping) the TCP/IP as transport protocol (T profile). You must regard, that the correspondent TCP port is enabled by using a firewall. The table below lists the ports, that must be considered by using a firewall.

Description

Type

Protocol

Port

Connection Oriented Transport Protocol (COTP, ISO 8073)

Protocol

TCP

102

The configuration of the windows firewall is done via a dialog in the system control. Further information can be found in the windows resp. firewall documentation.

Firewall Settings 1:

Please note, if you use an embedded controller without display and USB, you have to enable the port for remote display (Windows CE) or remote desktop (Windows XP / Windows Vista) in the firewall. Otherwise you have no possibility to administrate the computer via network.