EtherSBus

Ether-S-Bus (sbus)

Ether-S-Bus is a protocol used for the communication with and between PCDs (Process Control Device) which are PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) manufactured by the company Saia-Burgess Controls Ltd. The protocol contains all necessary functions to completely configure, program a PCD and visualize its memory content and the states of the I/Os.

History

The first S-Bus (Saia Bus) was developed together with the first PCD type in 1990. At this time only the Serial-S-Bus on R S485 and R S232 was implemented. Due to the constant evaluation of the controllers additional communication interfaces such as USB, Ethernet (Ether-S-Bus) and FDL (Fieldbus Data Link, used with Profi-S-Bus) were added. Ether-S-Bus is the implementation of S-Bus on Ethernet. This step was done in order to increase the communication speed and also add multi master capability. Further on, other Ethernet based protocols such as HTTP, FTP and SMTP which were implemented to the new controllers can now run on the same physical port of the controller.

Protocol dependencies

Ether-S-Bus uses UDP as its transport protocol. The port used by Ether-S-Bus is 5050.

Example traffic

EtherSBusScreenShot.png

Wireshark

The sbus dissector for Ether-S-Bus is fully functional (also it doesn't dissect every special command in detail). The plugin for Ethereal 0.99.0 (for Windows) is available at http://www.sbc-support.ch/faq.

Preference Settings

There are no preference settings for the sbus dissector.

Example capture file

Display Filter

A complete list of PROTO display filter fields can be found in the display filter reference

Show only the Ether-S-Bus based traffic:

 sbus

Capture Filter

You cannot directly filter Ether-S-Bus protocols while capturing. However, you can filter on UDP port 5050.

Capture only the Ether-S-Bus traffic over the default port (5050):

 udp port 5050

External links

Discussion

Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/EtherSBus on 2020-08-11 23:13:53 UTC