Configuring a station as a foreign device
If the station is configured as a BBMD, in addition to the Broadcast Distribution Table component, the IpPort’s Link container also has a Foreign Device Table component. It accumulates entries for remote BACnet/IP devices that have registered with the station as a foreign device,
and includes their registration time to live and upcoming purge time.
- Expand the BACnet network’s node and open the property sheet for the Link component.
- In the
Ip Device Typeproperty, selectForeign Devicefrom the drop-down list. - In the
Bbmd Addressproperty, enter the address of a known BBMD on a remote subnet using its full BACnet/IP MAC address: IP_Address:UDP_port, where IP_Address is a the number that identifies the station, and UDP_port is a number that identifies the port, which conforms to the User Datagram Protocol.This is the BBMD that the station attempts to register with as a foreign device.
For example, for a BBMD at 10.77.17.143 using the standard UDP port 0xBAC0 (decimal 47808), either entry format is accepted: 10.77.17.143:47808 or 10.77.17.143:0xBAC0
- In the
Registration Lifetimeproperty, either accept the default 15 minutes, or enter another value.The station automatically re-registers within this period. - To enable this configuration, click Save. This station attempts to register with the remote BBMD.
- From the Bacnet Device Manager, perform a device discover.If the foreign device configuration was successful, you should see devices from other subnets respond.