Does 888-2 Profinet option prevent Ethernet IP connections?

Robot Controller
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Hello,

I have customer that would like to connect an IRB 1600 to a Fronius weld machine. I’m not super familiar with the Fronius machines, but the examples I have seen have been connected to robots with Ethernet IP or EtherCAT.

The customer’s IRB 1600 has the following control module options:

701-1 FlexPendant: FlexPendant 10 m
888-2 PROFINET IO: PROFINET IO m/s SW
1541-1 Base Dig. 16In/16Out: Base Dig. 16In/16Out 1
731-1 Safety interface: Safety internal conn.
733-1 Operators panel: Panel on cabinet
735-3 Operating mode selector: Add. Contacts, 3 modes

So my question is, does option 888-2 (without 841-1) prevent me configuring the LAN/WAN ports for Ethernet IP?

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Which option is 841-1? Some years back I had used the LAN to connect both profinet and the plant network, just assign a different IP. However, look around on this forum some more, I believe that we had a discussion in which someone (DenisFR?) said that such is no longer working on the newer robotware.

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Hello,
Yes, since some years, when ProfiNet is activated on an interface, you can’t use any other protocol.
So for you, if you activate ProfiNet on LAN3, you have to use Ethernet-IP on WAN. But don’t connect them together…

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Thanks Denis. Maybe he can, he did not mention which version of robotware they are using.

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Sorry for the late reply, but yes Denis was Correct. Thanks for the responses. Customer was using 6.10