The PRP (Parallel Redundancy Protocol) is an Ethernet network protocol standard which allows seamless network redundancy against any simple network failure, with transparent redundancy to the application.
In a PRP architecture there must be two parallel networks (LAN_A and LAN_B), with the preferable and totally redundant adherent devices called DANs (Dual Attached Nodes), i.e. they have 2 interfaces, one on each LAN. Devices with a single interface (called SAN - Single Attached Nodes) can also take part of the architecture, but don´t benefit from redundancy, as well as other devices that do not directly support PRP (called VDANs - Virtual Dual Attached Nodes) which can be connected through a RedBox (Redundancy Box).
Elipse IEC 61850 driver behaves as a DAN, considering that the computer shall have 2 physical network adapters and one virtual network adapter, installed and configured correctly.
The chapters below show the steps for this configuration:
1 - Network traffic sniffer Install and Config
2 - Virtual Adapter install and Config
3 - Physical Network Adapters Config
4 - ElipsePRPSvc.exe: Install, Config and Execution
5 - Network Monitoring and Statistics