Modbus TCP/IP


Modbus TCP/IP specification was developed in 1999 to combining a ubiquitous physical network (Ethernet) with a universal networking standard (TCP/IP) and a vendor-neutral data representation. Modbus TCP/IP used the Modbus instruction set and wraps TCP/IP around it.

See Modbus protocol.

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