The entire communication via the TAP interface is being mirrored to a monitor port and

can be recorded using an external network analysis tool.

On the optical-fiber side, ibaBM-ENetIP works with the ibaNet protocol 32Mbit Flex. With

this protocol, measuring and configuration data are transferred via a bidirectional fiber

optic connection. The sampling rate and the data formats can be configured flexibly.

Overview of the most important characteristic values:

 TAP interface for sniffer function

 Monitor interface for connecting a network analysis tool

 Data acquisition with ibaPDA

 Simple configuration and measurement via bidirectional FO connection with ibaNet

protocol 32Mbit Flex

 Flexible configuration of sampling rate and data formats with 32Mbit Flex

The ibaBM-ENetIP bus monitor can be operated in an EtherNet/IP network without inter

ferences using the TAP interface (Ethernet). The device works as sniffer, i.e. it listens to

the cyclic data exchange of the IO data (implicit messaging) between EtherNet/IP scan

ner (master) and adapters (slaves).