| 摘要 |
A communication method operates to seamlessly transmit internet protocol (IP) data frames, such as IPv6 data frames, over a communication network that uses a non-IP network routing protocol, i.e., a communication network that implements a network routing protocol other than, or that is incompatible with an IP network routing protocol, such as the WirelessHART protocol. This communication method enables, for example, field devices or other intelligent devices within a process plant network that uses a non-IP communication network (a network that does not use IP based network routing) to perform messaging of IP data frames generated at or to be received by internet protocol enabled devices either within the process plant network or outside of the process plant network. The communication method does not affect or alter the normal communications within the non-IP communication network because the communication method uses the network routing structure of the non-IP communication network to transmit the IP data frames within the non-IP communication network, while preserving the IP network routing information of the IP data frames needed to subsequently route the messages in an IP based communications network or to decode and use IP message data frames in an IP enabled device. |
