How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

How to transform a robot controller into a switch

How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

1. The ABB robot controller has several network ports, defined as follows:

How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

2. Several network ports within the Private Network are essentially different ports of a switch.

3. The default LAN3 port is isolated, as shown in the figure. At this time, you can individually configure the IP for LAN3 in the IP settings.

How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

4. LAN3 can also be configured as part of the Private network, as shown in the figure below.

How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

Open Control Panel-Configuration-Theme Communication-Static Vlan-X5, set the Interface to LAN (default is LAN3)

How ABB Industrial Robots Transform Controllers into Switches

At this point, both LAN2 and LAN3 can serve as different ports of the switch.

Due to Service, LAN1, LAN2, and LAN3 are all part of the Private network, equivalent to different ports of a switch. At this time, you can also connect the PC’s network cable to LAN3 or LAN2, and connect to the robot via Robotstudio (the connected robot’s IP is 192.168.125.1).

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