There are many utilities in this zip file, you’ll only need the mstpcap.exe. You can click on the link at tab 4 which will bring up the correct folder as shown at tab5.Ĥ.Download and unzip the mstpcap.exe helper file from Steve, it can be found here.

Start up Wireshark and click on Help -> About Wireshark -> Folders tab -> Extcap path to see where the file should be copied. 3.Next we need to download Steve Kargs’ helper file and save it to a special folder where Wireshark was installed. Select the default options all through the install process.

Next install the Wireshark 2.0 packet capture tool: Installing Wireshark and the MSTP helper tool With these two bits of hardware you can be up & programming with Bacnet MSTP in short order. There is a link on the product page to the source code for this product which uses an Arm STM32F103VC processor. Its normal job is a ‘pulse input to analog output’ but you can use it as general purpose I/O with its six universal inputs and six analog/binary outputs. You’ll need to install the FTDI driver which is on the product page as well.Īnd you’ll need a Bacnet device, if you haven’t got one already here’s a $30 device we’re making. You’ll need an RS485 port on your PC and a Bacnet device to talk to.įor the RS485 port, we make this low cost USB to RS485 converter. Thanks to some creative work by Steve Kargs we can use a normal PC to capture MSTP packets and view them live with Wireshark. Bacnet specifies that a device should begin its reply within 15 to 20ms which is near the limit for a PC. The specialty nature of Bacnet communications plus the tight timing make it difficult for multi tasking operating systems like Windows and Linux to keep up. When it comes to analyzing MSTP traffic on the RS485 bus the choices are limited. When it comes to debugging Ethernet traffic there are plenty of hardware and software tools to choose from, Wireshark is a powerful example and it its free.

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