Ether-S-I/O (esio)
The Ether-S-I/O protocol is used for data transfer between PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller) and remote input/output devices (RIOs) manufactured by Saia-Burgess Controls Ltd. A "Smart remote input/output station (Smart RIO)" features physical inputs and outputs and contains a CPU on which a small application can be run. The inputs from these RIO stations can be read and written by the master station (a PLC) using the Ether-S-I/O protocol. The application which can be run on the RIO station is uploaded to the RIO station using the EtherSBus protocol.
History
The Ether-S-I/O protocol has been developed together with a new hardware of RIO devices. The advantages of this new protocol are to following:
- A telegram can contain data for several remote I/O stations (it can be sent as IP broadcast and contains several sections, each of them for a destination station.
- The full length of the datagram can be used (while Ether-S-Bus telegrams are limited in the size)
Protocol dependencies
Ether-S-I/O uses UDP as its transport protocol. The port used by Ether-S-I/O is 6060.
Example traffic
Wireshark
The Ether-S-I/O dissector is in preparation.
Preference Settings
There are no preference settings for the esio dissector.
Example capture file
Display Filter
A complete list of Ether-S-I/O display filter fields can be found in the display filter reference
Show only the Ether-S-I/O based traffic:
esio Capture Filter
You cannot directly filter Ether-S-Bus protocols while capturing. However, you can filter on the UDP port used.
Capture only the Ether-S-I/O traffic over the default port (6060):
udp port 6060 External links
- http://www.sbc-support.ch Support site from Saia-Burgess Controls AG.
Discussion
Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/EtherSIO on 2020-08-11 23:13:54 UTC