How do I implement a scanner with CIPster?

[amussell]

I need to create a C++ client for an Ethernet/IP Adapter that is running on a hardware device.

Does CIPster offer an API for implementing an Ethernet/IP scanner? Are there plans to add that functionality?

[liftoff-sr]

Please use the "Discussions" tab for general questions like this, that way when the issue is closed the question is not lost.

https://www.freelists.org/post/cipster/EtherNETIP-resources,1

I have no plans to release my scanner code as open source. Somebody else could chose to write a scanner on top of CIPster and release it as open source.

A sensible solution might be to use the gateway like functionality of the SoftPLC runtime, and simply use a low cost box running that, and then speak to it using a different protocol that you already have. The SoftPLC runtime makes a excellent industrial protocol translator.
You can also coexist your code on the same box as the SoftPLC, either as a separate process or a shared object within the same process. There is a C++ toolkit for these options.

[liftoff-sr]

Here is a user's manual for the scanner in the context of the SoftPLC runtime.

http://softplc.com/usermanuals/ethernet_ip/