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A major difference is that the functions to store configuration parameters permanently in flash memory are no longer supported on NIC 52 devices.
This has been changed to save the limited number of write cycles on the flash memory, thus preventing device defects.
So now after each reset of the netIC the configuration parameters are taken from the flash memory.
We therefore recommend to create a fixed basic configuration using the NetX Configuration Tool and configure everything else during startup via the configuration register via Modbus.
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