fix(scripteditor): complete + hover absolute RawPaths (#490)

The issue reports a missing feature. The cause is a stale projection, and the
consequence was worse than the gap described.

`ScriptTagCatalog` still emitted `Tag.TagConfig.FullName` — the pre-v3 driver wire
address. Since v3 the mux key is the **RawPath**: `AddressSpaceComposer` harvests the
`ctx.GetTag("…")` literals into `DependencyRefs`, those become `VirtualTagActor`
dependency refs registered with `DependencyMuxActor`, whose `_byRef` is keyed Ordinal
by `AttributeValuePublished.FullReference` — and a driver's wire ref IS the RawPath
(`DriverHostActor._nodeIdByDriverRef` is keyed `(DriverInstanceId, RawPath)`). The
`{{equip}}/<RefName>` form already substitutes to RawPaths at both compose seams.

So the catalog was wrong in BOTH directions, not merely incomplete: completion
offered paths that could never resolve at runtime, while a CORRECT absolute RawPath
got no completion and hovered as "not a known configured tag path". The file's own
comment admitted the raw/UNS catalog was left for "Batch 2/3" and it never came.

Now projected through the shared `RawPathResolver` — the same byte-parity authority
`DraftValidator` and `AddressSpaceComposer` use — so a suggested path is identical to
the one the deploy gate and the runtime compute. A tag with a broken ancestry chain
resolves to null and is omitted: the runtime could not route it either, so offering
it would be a lie. Hover additionally gains the owning `DriverInstanceId`, which the
topology now makes available (it was always null before).

Editor-accepts <=> publish-accepts is preserved: no diagnostic keys off this catalog
(`OTSCRIPT_EQUIPREF` only marks `{{equip}}` paths), so this changes completion and
hover only — it cannot newly reject a script.

The existing tests pinned the v2 contract and were re-authored: a RawPath only exists
if the RawFolder -> DriverInstance -> Device -> TagGroup -> Tag chain does, so the
seed now builds one. Added coverage for group-nested paths, a driver at the cluster
root (no folder segment), a broken chain being omitted rather than guessed, and the
pre-v3 FullName no longer resolving.

Live-gated on docker-dev (rig rebuilt, both central nodes):
- completion, empty literal -> every RawPath incl. group-nested
  `opcua1/plc/OpcPlc/Telemetry/Basic/AlternatingBoolean`
- completion, prefix `pymod` -> `pymodbus/plc/HR200X`, `pymodbus/plc/ImportedTag`
- hover `pymodbus/plc/HR200X` -> "Tag · Type UInt16 · Driver MAIN-modbus"
- hover an unknown path -> "Not a known configured tag path"

AdminUI 742/742; script-analysis 55/55; solution builds 0 errors.

docker-dev/seed/seed-clusters.sql

@@ -106,6 +106,28 @@ IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM dbo.ClusterNode WHERE NodeId = 'site-b-2:4053')
         (NodeId, ClusterId, Host, OpcUaPort, DashboardPort, AkkaPort, GrpcPort, ApplicationUri, ServiceLevelBase, Enabled, CreatedBy)
     VALUES ('site-b-2:4053', 'SITE-B', 'site-b-2', 4840, 8081, 4053, 4056, 'urn:OtOpcUa:site-b-2', 150, 1, 'docker-dev-seed');
 
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Backfill: GrpcPort on rows that predate the column (#493)
+--
+-- Every insert above is INSERT-if-not-exists, which is the right shape for a re-runnable seed
+-- but means a *new nullable* column never reaches rows created by an earlier version of this
+-- file. On a persisted volume that is exactly what happened when Phase 5 added GrpcPort: the
+-- six ClusterNode rows already existed, so they kept NULL, TelemetryNodeSource found no dial
+-- targets, and TelemetryDial:Mode=Grpc silently connected to nothing (throttled Warning per
+-- node — the code degrades gracefully, so nothing failed loudly).
+--
+-- Backfills NULL only. It must not overwrite a port an operator set deliberately on a
+-- long-lived dev volume; a NULL is the unambiguous "this row predates the column" marker.
+--
+-- AkkaPort deliberately has no equivalent here: it is NOT NULL with a default of 4053, so
+-- pre-existing rows already carry a usable value and there is nothing to backfill.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+UPDATE dbo.ClusterNode
+   SET GrpcPort = 4056          -- matches Telemetry__GrpcListenPort on all six nodes in docker-compose.yml
+ WHERE GrpcPort IS NULL
+   AND CreatedBy = 'docker-dev-seed';
+
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- Galaxy MxAccess gateway — INTENTIONALLY NOT SEEDED (retired 2026-06-15)
 --

docs/Telemetry.md

@@ -128,6 +128,39 @@ transports. ScadaBridge itself has since closed that gap with this identical
 interceptor pattern, so Phase 5 ships authenticated from the start rather than deferring auth to a
 later hardening pass. See the design doc's superseded note for the full history.
 
+## Upgrading an existing deployment: populate `ClusterNode.GrpcPort` first (#493)
+
+`GrpcPort` is a **nullable column added by Phase 5**, and nothing backfills it onto rows that
+already existed. On an upgraded deployment every `ClusterNode` row therefore carries `NULL`,
+central finds **no dial targets**, and flipping `TelemetryDial:Mode` to `Grpc` connects to
+nothing. Fresh installs are unaffected. `AkkaPort` did not have this problem only because it is
+`NOT NULL` with a default of 4053.
+
+Nothing fails loudly, which is what makes this worth stating up front — the code degrades
+gracefully, once per node, throttled:
+
+```
+ClusterNode <id> has no GrpcPort; it exposes no telemetry stream and is skipped in this dial refresh
+(further skips of this node are silent)
+```
+
+Other symptoms: no `ESTABLISHED` sockets on the telemetry port (a `LISTEN` but nothing else in
+`docker exec <node> cat /proc/net/tcp6`), and the `/alerts` / `/script-log` pill never turning
+live in `Grpc` mode.
+
+**Before flipping any node to `Grpc`**, set each driver node's `GrpcPort` to that node's own
+`Telemetry:GrpcListenPort` — via the AdminUI node editor, or directly:
+
+```sql
+UPDATE dbo.ClusterNode SET GrpcPort = <that node's Telemetry:GrpcListenPort> WHERE NodeId = '<node>';
+```
+
+There is deliberately **no EF data migration** backfilling this. The correct value is that node's
+own listener port, which is per-deployment configuration the database cannot derive; a migration
+could only invent one, and a *wrong* dial target is worse than the `NULL` the dialer already skips
+explicitly. The docker-dev seed does backfill (`GrpcPort IS NULL AND CreatedBy = 'docker-dev-seed'`
+→ 4056) because there the port is fixed by `docker-compose.yml` and therefore actually knowable.
+
 ## Reconnect and reliability
 
 Central's `TelemetryDialSupervisor` (an admin-role actor) runs **one reconnecting dialer per

docs/plans/2026-07-24-driver-expansion-tracking.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ it reaches 📝.
 | Wave | Deliverable | Design | Impl. plan | Status | Effort | Fixture / hardware |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | **0** | Universal Discover-backed browser | [design](2026-07-15-universal-discovery-browser-design.md) | [plan](2026-07-15-universal-discovery-browser-implementation.md) · [tasks](2026-07-15-universal-discovery-browser-implementation.md.tasks.json) | 🟡 **Live gate open** | S–M | none (retrofits shipped drivers) |
-| **1** | Modbus RTU (extend Modbus) | [design](2026-07-15-modbus-rtu-driver-design.md) | [plan](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md) · [tasks](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md.tasks.json) | 📝 **Plan ready** (11 tasks) | **S (lowest)** | `pymodbus` `rtu_over_tcp` — CI-simulatable, no new infra |
+| **1** | Modbus RTU (extend Modbus) | [design](2026-07-15-modbus-rtu-driver-design.md) | [plan](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md) · [tasks](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md.tasks.json) | 🟢 **Built — live gate PASSED** (11 tasks, branch `feat/modbus-rtu-driver`, pending merge) | **S (lowest)** | `pymodbus` `rtu_over_tcp` — CI-simulatable, no new infra |
 | **1** | SQL poll | [design](2026-07-15-sql-poll-driver-design.md) | [plan](2026-07-24-sql-poll-driver.md) · [tasks](2026-07-24-sql-poll-driver.md.tasks.json) | 📝 **Plan ready** (22 tasks) | S–M | **existing central SQL Server** `10.100.0.35,14330` + SQLite unit |
 | **2** | MTConnect Agent | [design](2026-07-15-mtconnect-driver-design.md) | [plan](2026-07-24-mtconnect-driver.md) · [tasks](2026-07-24-mtconnect-driver.md.tasks.json) | 📝 **Plan ready** (23 tasks) | S–M | Dockerized `mtconnect/cppagent` — CI-simulatable |
 | **2** | MQTT / Sparkplug B | [design](2026-07-15-mqtt-sparkplug-driver-design.md) | [plan](2026-07-24-mqtt-sparkplug-driver.md) · [tasks](2026-07-24-mqtt-sparkplug-driver.md.tasks.json) | 📝 **Plan ready** (27 tasks, P1+P2) | M–L | Mosquitto/EMQX + C# Sparkplug sim — CI-simulatable |
@@ -92,16 +92,30 @@ marginal cost.
 Both are **fully CI-simulatable with zero new hardware**; Modbus RTU needs no new infra at all, and
 SQL poll reuses the always-on central SQL Server. This is the recommended next build.
 
-### Modbus RTU — 📝 Plan ready
+### Modbus RTU — 🟢 Built, live gate PASSED (branch `feat/modbus-rtu-driver`, pending merge)
 - **Design:** [`2026-07-15-modbus-rtu-driver-design.md`](2026-07-15-modbus-rtu-driver-design.md)
-- **Implementation plan:** [`2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md`](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md) · [`.tasks.json`](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md.tasks.json) — **11 tasks** (1 trivial / 5 small / 2 standard / 3 high-risk).
+- **Implementation plan:** [`2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md`](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md) · [`.tasks.json`](2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md.tasks.json) — **11 tasks** (1 trivial / 5 small / 2 standard / 3 high-risk), all complete via subagent-driven-development.
 - **Scope:** extend the existing Modbus driver with a `Transport` selector (RTU CRC-16 + FC-aware
   length, no TxId) + a `rtu_over_tcp` `pymodbus` docker profile + the AdminUI selector.
   **Direct-serial transport is descoped** (user, 2026-07-15) — RTU-over-TCP via a serial→Ethernet
   gateway is the only shipped mode, so there is no serial hardware gate.
-- **Fixture:** add an `rtu_over_tcp` profile to the existing Modbus integration fixture. First P1
+- **Fixture:** added the `rtu_over_tcp` profile (`framer=rtu`, host `:5021`, co-runs with `standard`)
-  step is confirming the pymodbus simulator exposes the RTU framer on a TCP server.
+  to the Modbus integration fixture. **Unknown confirmed:** pymodbus 3.13's simulator DOES honour
-- **Effort:** **S — the lowest on the roadmap.** Recommended first.
+  `framer=rtu` on a TCP server (wire-probed a pure RTU FC03 response, no MBAP) — so the simple profile
+  path was taken; **no stdlib fallback server was needed.**
+- **Verification (all green):** unit suite **344/344**; full solution build 0 errors; the 2 RTU
+  integration tests pass **live** against the real `framer=rtu` fixture (read HR5→5, write+readback
+  HR200←4242). Per-task review chain (spec + code reviewers) + a final whole-branch review, all
+  approved-to-merge.
+- **Live `/run` gate — PASSED (2026-07-24, docker-dev rebuilt from this branch):**
+  - AdminUI `/raw` Modbus **driver** config modal renders the new **Transport** selector (with the
+    operator hint) — set to `RtuOverTcp`, saved.
+  - **Device Test Connect → `OK · 23 MS`** — the probe built a `ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport` via the
+    factory and spoke **FC03 over real RTU framing** to `10.100.0.35:5021`.
+  - Authored raw tags HR5 (r/o) + HR200 (r/w) → **deployment `06ec1632` Sealed** (all 6 nodes acked).
+  - Client.CLI on `opc.tcp://localhost:4840` (`multi-role`/`password`): **read** `ns=2;s=rtu-gate/Device1/HR5`
+    → **5, Good**; **write** `ns=2;s=rtu-gate/Device1/HR200` = 4242 → readback **4242, Good**.
+- **Effort:** **S — the lowest on the roadmap.** Delivered first, as recommended.
 
 ### SQL poll — 📝 Plan ready
 - **Design:** [`2026-07-15-sql-poll-driver-design.md`](2026-07-15-sql-poll-driver-design.md)

src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration/Validation/DraftValidator.cs

@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ public static class DraftValidator
     ///     credential in the ConfigDb — persisted, replicated to every node's artifact cache, and readable by
     ///     anyone with config access — while the runtime silently ignored it and the driver failed to connect.
     ///     Discarding a secret on read is not the same as refusing to store it.</para>
+    ///     <para><b>Two of the three surfaces are checked here.</b> The third — a node's
+    ///     <see cref="ClusterNode.DriverConfigOverridesJson"/> — is not reachable from
+    ///     <see cref="DraftSnapshot"/> and is gated at its save instead (#499); see
+    ///     <see cref="SqlCredentialGuard"/> for why a deploy gate is the wrong instrument for a value that
+    ///     never enters the artifact.</para>
     ///     <para>Checked on <b>both</b> config surfaces a Sql driver reads: the instance's
     ///     <see cref="DriverInstance.DriverConfig"/> and the <see cref="Device.DeviceConfig"/> of every device
     ///     beneath it, because the two are merged before the DTO sees them — a credential pasted into the
@@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ public static class DraftValidator
     /// </remarks>
     private static void ValidateSqlConnectionStringNotPersisted(DraftSnapshot draft, List<ValidationError> errors)
     {
-        const string ForbiddenKey = "connectionString";
+        const string ForbiddenKey = SqlCredentialGuard.ForbiddenKey;
 
         var sqlInstanceIds = draft.DriverInstances
             .Where(d => string.Equals(d.DriverType, Core.Abstractions.DriverTypeNames.Sql, StringComparison.Ordinal))
@@ -85,7 +90,7 @@ public static class DraftValidator
         foreach (var d in draft.DriverInstances)
         {
             if (!sqlInstanceIds.Contains(d.DriverInstanceId)) continue;
-            if (!HasTopLevelKey(d.DriverConfig, ForbiddenKey)) continue;
+            if (!SqlCredentialGuard.CarriesLiteralConnectionString(d.DriverConfig)) continue;
             errors.Add(new("SqlConnectionStringPersisted",
                 $"Sql driver instance '{d.DriverInstanceId}' has a '{ForbiddenKey}' key in its DriverConfig. " +
                 "A Sql driver must name its credentials indirectly via 'connectionStringRef', which resolves " +
@@ -98,7 +103,7 @@ public static class DraftValidator
         foreach (var dev in draft.Devices)
         {
             if (!sqlInstanceIds.Contains(dev.DriverInstanceId)) continue;
-            if (!HasTopLevelKey(dev.DeviceConfig, ForbiddenKey)) continue;
+            if (!SqlCredentialGuard.CarriesLiteralConnectionString(dev.DeviceConfig)) continue;
             errors.Add(new("SqlConnectionStringPersisted",
                 $"Device '{dev.DeviceId}' on Sql driver instance '{dev.DriverInstanceId}' has a " +
                 $"'{ForbiddenKey}' key in its DeviceConfig. DeviceConfig is merged onto DriverConfig before " +
@@ -107,34 +112,6 @@ public static class DraftValidator
         }
     }
 
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     True when <paramref name="json"/> is a JSON object carrying <paramref name="key"/> at its top level,
-    ///     matched case-insensitively. Never throws — a blank, malformed or non-object blob simply has no keys,
-    ///     and shaping the config JSON is another rule's job.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="json">The config blob to inspect.</param>
-    /// <param name="key">The property name to look for.</param>
-    /// <returns><see langword="true"/> when the key is present at the top level.</returns>
-    private static bool HasTopLevelKey(string? json, string key)
-    {
-        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(json)) return false;
-        try
-        {
-            using var doc = System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.Parse(json);
-            if (doc.RootElement.ValueKind != System.Text.Json.JsonValueKind.Object) return false;
-            foreach (var property in doc.RootElement.EnumerateObject())
-            {
-                if (string.Equals(property.Name, key, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) return true;
-            }
-
-            return false;
-        }
-        catch (System.Text.Json.JsonException)
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-    }
-
     /// <summary>WP7 Calculation-driver deploy gates. For every tag bound to a <c>Calculation</c> driver:
     /// <list type="number">
     ///   <item><b>scriptId existence</b> — the tag's <c>TagConfig.scriptId</c> must be present and resolve to

src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration/Validation/SqlCredentialGuard.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+using System.Text.Json;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Validation;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     The one place that decides whether a persisted config blob carries a literal Sql
+///     <c>connectionString</c> (Gitea #498 / #499).
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     <para>
+///         A <c>Sql</c> driver names its credentials indirectly — <c>connectionStringRef</c> resolves from
+///         the environment / secret store at Initialize — so nothing persisted should ever contain a
+///         database password. The typed <c>SqlDriverConfigDto</c> already drops a <c>connectionString</c>
+///         key on <b>read</b>, but discarding a secret on read is not the same as refusing to store it:
+///         config blobs are schemaless JSON columns authored through raw-JSON textareas, so the key can
+///         be written even though the runtime ignores it.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         There are <b>three</b> surfaces a Sql driver's config is persisted on, and they need different
+///         enforcement points:
+///         <list type="bullet">
+///             <item><c>DriverInstance.DriverConfig</c> and <c>Device.DeviceConfig</c> — both in the
+///             deployed artifact, both visible to <c>DraftSnapshot</c>, both gated by
+///             <c>DraftValidator</c>.</item>
+///             <item><c>ClusterNode.DriverConfigOverridesJson</c> — the per-node override map. It is
+///             <b>not</b> in <c>DraftSnapshot</c>, and deliberately does not go there: adding a
+///             <c>ClusterNode</c> collection would widen the snapshot (and every builder of one) for a
+///             single rule about a value that is not part of the artifact at all. More to the point, a
+///             deploy gate is the wrong instrument here — the artifact never carries node overrides, so
+///             blocking a deploy would not stop the credential being stored. It is already in the
+///             database by then. This surface is therefore gated at the <b>save</b>, which is the only
+///             point where "refuse to store it" is literally true.</item>
+///         </list>
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         <b>Deliberately narrow.</b> This checks the <c>Sql</c> driver's <c>connectionString</c> key
+///         only — not a general "credential-shaped key" sweep over every driver type. A broader rule
+///         would start refusing configs that are legitimate today for drivers that never made this
+///         guarantee, turning defence-in-depth into a regression. Widen it per driver, as each driver
+///         gains an indirect-credential contract of its own.
+///     </para>
+/// </remarks>
+public static class SqlCredentialGuard
+{
+    /// <summary>The config key a Sql driver must never persist. Matched case-insensitively.</summary>
+    public const string ForbiddenKey = "connectionString";
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Whether <paramref name="configJson"/> is a JSON object carrying <see cref="ForbiddenKey"/> at
+    ///     its top level.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     Matched <b>case-insensitively</b>: <c>System.Text.Json</c> binds <c>ConnectionString</c> to a
+    ///     <c>connectionString</c> property by default, so a case variant is the same key, not a
+    ///     different one. Only the top level is scanned — the DTO is flat, so a nested occurrence cannot
+    ///     bind and is not the credential-shaped mistake this exists to catch.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="configJson">The config blob to inspect.</param>
+    /// <returns><see langword="true"/> when the key is present at the top level.</returns>
+    public static bool CarriesLiteralConnectionString(string? configJson)
+    {
+        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(configJson)) return false;
+        try
+        {
+            using var doc = JsonDocument.Parse(configJson);
+            return doc.RootElement.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Object
+                   && HasTopLevelKey(doc.RootElement, ForbiddenKey);
+        }
+        catch (JsonException)
+        {
+            // A malformed blob simply has no keys. Shaping the config JSON is another rule's job, and
+            // throwing here would turn a formatting mistake into a credential-guard failure.
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     The <c>DriverInstanceId</c>s in a <c>ClusterNode.DriverConfigOverridesJson</c> map whose
+    ///     override object carries a literal connection string, restricted to instances that are actually
+    ///     Sql drivers.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     The override map is shaped <c>{ "&lt;DriverInstanceId&gt;": { …driver config keys… } }</c> and is
+    ///     merged onto the cluster-level <c>DriverConfig</c>, so a credential pasted into one lands in
+    ///     exactly the place <see cref="CarriesLiteralConnectionString"/> already refuses on the driver
+    ///     itself.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="overridesJson">The node's override map. Null / blank / malformed yields no
+    /// violations.</param>
+    /// <param name="sqlDriverInstanceIds">The ids of driver instances whose <c>DriverType</c> is
+    /// <c>Sql</c>. Keys outside this set are ignored — a non-Sql driver never made the indirect-credential
+    /// guarantee, so flagging it would be a regression, not defence in depth.</param>
+    /// <returns>The offending driver-instance ids, in document order; empty when there are none.</returns>
+    public static IReadOnlyList<string> FindNodeOverrideViolations(
+        string? overridesJson, IReadOnlyCollection<string> sqlDriverInstanceIds)
+    {
+        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(overridesJson) || sqlDriverInstanceIds.Count == 0)
+        {
+            return [];
+        }
+
+        var sqlIds = sqlDriverInstanceIds as IReadOnlySet<string>
+                     ?? sqlDriverInstanceIds.ToHashSet(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+
+        try
+        {
+            using var doc = JsonDocument.Parse(overridesJson);
+            if (doc.RootElement.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Object) return [];
+
+            List<string>? offenders = null;
+            foreach (var entry in doc.RootElement.EnumerateObject())
+            {
+                if (!sqlIds.Contains(entry.Name)) continue;
+                if (entry.Value.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Object) continue;
+                if (!HasTopLevelKey(entry.Value, ForbiddenKey)) continue;
+
+                (offenders ??= []).Add(entry.Name);
+            }
+
+            return (IReadOnlyList<string>?)offenders ?? [];
+        }
+        catch (JsonException)
+        {
+            return [];
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Whether <paramref name="obj"/> carries <paramref name="key"/> at its top level,
+    /// case-insensitively.</summary>
+    private static bool HasTopLevelKey(JsonElement obj, string key)
+    {
+        foreach (var property in obj.EnumerateObject())
+        {
+            if (string.Equals(property.Name, key, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) return true;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+}

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Contracts/ModbusDriverOptions.cs

@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ public sealed class ModbusDriverOptions
     /// </summary>
     public MelsecFamily MelsecSubFamily { get; init; } = MelsecFamily.Q_L_iQR;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Wire transport selector. <see cref="ModbusTransportMode.Tcp"/> (default) is the
+    ///     historical Modbus TCP/MBAP framing. <see cref="ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp"/>
+    ///     frames Modbus RTU PDUs (CRC16, no MBAP header) over the same TCP socket — for
+    ///     serial-to-Ethernet gateways that bridge RS-485 without re-encapsulating to MBAP.
+    /// </summary>
+    public ModbusTransportMode Transport { get; init; } = ModbusTransportMode.Tcp;
+
     /// <summary>
     ///     When <c>true</c>, the driver suppresses redundant writes: if the most recent
     ///     successful write to a tag carried value V and a new write of V arrives, the second

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Contracts/ModbusTransportMode.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Wire transport for a Modbus driver instance. <see cref="Tcp"/> = Modbus/TCP (MBAP + TxId);
+///     <see cref="RtuOverTcp"/> = RTU framing (address + CRC-16, no MBAP) tunnelled over a socket to
+///     a serial→Ethernet gateway. Default <see cref="Tcp"/> — existing configs omit the field.
+///     A direct-serial <c>Rtu</c> member is intentionally NOT reserved here (descoped 2026-07-15);
+///     do not number-squat it.
+/// </summary>
+public enum ModbusTransportMode
+{
+    /// <summary>Modbus/TCP — 7-byte MBAP header + transaction id (the historical default).</summary>
+    Tcp,
+
+    /// <summary>RTU framing (<c>[addr][PDU][CRC-16]</c>) tunnelled over a socket to a serial→Ethernet gateway.</summary>
+    RtuOverTcp,
+}

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusCrc.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     CRC-16/MODBUS helper: reflected polynomial <c>0xA001</c>, initial value <c>0xFFFF</c>.
+///     On the wire the CRC is appended low byte first, high byte second — <see cref="Append"/>
+///     does that; <see cref="Compute"/> just returns the 16-bit value. Byte-stream-agnostic:
+///     no socket or framing knowledge lives here.
+/// </summary>
+public static class ModbusCrc
+{
+    /// <summary>Computes the CRC-16/MODBUS checksum over <paramref name="data"/>.</summary>
+    /// <param name="data">The bytes to checksum (e.g. the RTU frame minus the trailing CRC).</param>
+    /// <returns>The 16-bit CRC value.</returns>
+    public static ushort Compute(ReadOnlySpan<byte> data)
+    {
+        ushort crc = 0xFFFF;
+        foreach (var b in data)
+        {
+            crc ^= b;
+            for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++)
+            {
+                var carry = (crc & 0x0001) != 0;
+                crc >>= 1;
+                if (carry)
+                {
+                    crc ^= 0xA001;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return crc;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Returns <paramref name="body"/> with its CRC-16/MODBUS appended, low byte first.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="body">The frame body to checksum.</param>
+    /// <returns>A new array: <paramref name="body"/> followed by <c>[crc &amp; 0xFF, crc &gt;&gt; 8]</c>.</returns>
+    public static byte[] Append(ReadOnlySpan<byte> body)
+    {
+        var crc = Compute(body);
+        var result = new byte[body.Length + 2];
+        body.CopyTo(result);
+        result[^2] = (byte)(crc & 0xFF);
+        result[^1] = (byte)(crc >> 8);
+        return result;
+    }
+}

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusDriver.cs

@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ public sealed class ModbusDriver
     /// <summary>Initializes a new Modbus TCP driver with the specified options and transport factory.</summary>
     /// <param name="options">Driver configuration options.</param>
     /// <param name="driverInstanceId">Unique identifier for this driver instance.</param>
-    /// <param name="transportFactory">Factory to create the Modbus transport; defaults to ModbusTcpTransport.</param>
+    /// <param name="transportFactory">Factory to create the Modbus transport; defaults to
+    /// <see cref="ModbusTransportFactory.Create"/>, which honours <see cref="ModbusDriverOptions.Transport"/>.</param>
     /// <param name="logger">Logger instance; defaults to null logger if not provided.</param>
     public ModbusDriver(ModbusDriverOptions options, string driverInstanceId,
         Func<ModbusDriverOptions, IModbusTransport>? transportFactory = null,
@@ -107,11 +108,7 @@ public sealed class ModbusDriver
         _resolver = new EquipmentTagRefResolver<ModbusTagDefinition>(
             r => _tagsByRawPath.TryGetValue(r, out var t) ? t : null);
         _transportFactory = transportFactory
-            ?? (o => new ModbusTcpTransport(
+            ?? (o => ModbusTransportFactory.Create(o));
-                o.Host, o.Port, o.Timeout, o.AutoReconnect,
-                keepAlive: o.KeepAlive,
-                idleDisconnect: o.IdleDisconnectTimeout,
-                reconnect: o.Reconnect));
         _poll = new PollGroupEngine(
             reader: ReadAsync,
             onChange: (handle, tagRef, snapshot) =>

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusDriverFactoryExtensions.cs

@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ public static class ModbusDriverFactoryExtensions
                 : ParseEnum<ModbusFamily>(dto.Family, "<driver-level>", driverInstanceId, "Family"),
             MelsecSubFamily = dto.MelsecSubFamily is null ? MelsecFamily.Q_L_iQR
                 : ParseEnum<MelsecFamily>(dto.MelsecSubFamily, "<driver-level>", driverInstanceId, "MelsecSubFamily"),
+            Transport = dto.Transport is null ? ModbusTransportMode.Tcp
+                : ParseEnum<ModbusTransportMode>(dto.Transport, "<driver-level>", driverInstanceId, "Transport"),
             AutoProhibitReprobeInterval = dto.AutoProhibitReprobeMs is { } reprobeMs ? TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(reprobeMs) : null,
             AutoReconnect = dto.AutoReconnect ?? true,
             // v3: the deploy artifact (Wave C) populates rawTags with the cluster's authored raw Modbus
@@ -159,6 +161,8 @@ public static class ModbusDriverFactoryExtensions
         public string? Family { get; init; }
         /// <summary>Gets or sets the Melsec subfamily.</summary>
         public string? MelsecSubFamily { get; init; }
+        /// <summary>Gets or sets the wire transport mode (Tcp / RtuOverTcp). Null defaults to Tcp.</summary>
+        public string? Transport { get; init; }
         /// <summary>Gets or sets the automatic prohibition reprobei interval in milliseconds.</summary>
         public int? AutoProhibitReprobeMs { get; init; }
         /// <summary>Gets or sets a value indicating whether automatic reconnection is enabled.</summary>

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusDriverProbe.cs

@@ -29,15 +29,19 @@ public sealed class ModbusDriverProbe : IDriverProbe
     /// <inheritdoc />
     public string DriverType => "Modbus";
 
-    /// <summary>The parsed probe target — host/port/unitId + the effective connection timeout, all read
+    /// <summary>The parsed probe target — host/port/unitId + the effective connection timeout + the wire
-    /// from the SAME factory DTO shape (<c>ModbusDriverConfigDto</c>) the driver factory parses, so
+    /// transport mode, all read from the SAME factory DTO shape (<c>ModbusDriverConfigDto</c>) the driver
-    /// <c>timeoutMs</c> binds identically to the factory (R2-11, 05/CONV-2; the OpcUaClient parity rule).</summary>
+    /// factory parses, so <c>timeoutMs</c> binds identically to the factory (R2-11, 05/CONV-2; the
-    internal readonly record struct ProbeTarget(string Host, int Port, byte UnitId, TimeSpan Timeout);
+    /// OpcUaClient parity rule) and an <c>RtuOverTcp</c>-authored config probes over RTU framing —
+    /// matching how the driver will actually run.</summary>
+    internal readonly record struct ProbeTarget(string Host, int Port, byte UnitId, TimeSpan Timeout, ModbusTransportMode Transport);
 
     /// <summary>Parse the driver config JSON into a <see cref="ProbeTarget"/> using the factory DTO shape.
     /// Returns a null target + an error message when the JSON is invalid or has no host/port. The effective
     /// timeout mirrors the factory (<c>TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(dto.TimeoutMs ?? …)</c>); when the config
-    /// omits <c>timeoutMs</c> the caller's <paramref name="fallbackTimeout"/> is used.</summary>
+    /// omits <c>timeoutMs</c> the caller's <paramref name="fallbackTimeout"/> is used. <c>Transport</c>
+    /// mirrors the factory's null-defaults-to-Tcp convention (<see cref="ModbusDriverFactoryExtensions"/>);
+    /// an unrecognized value is reported as a probe-target error rather than silently falling back.</summary>
     /// <param name="configJson">The driver config JSON (factory DTO shape).</param>
     /// <param name="fallbackTimeout">The timeout used when the config omits <c>timeoutMs</c>.</param>
     /// <returns>The parsed target, or a null target with an error string.</returns>
@@ -52,8 +56,15 @@ public sealed class ModbusDriverProbe : IDriverProbe
         if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(dto.Host) || port <= 0)
             return (null, "Config has no host/port to probe.");
 
+        var transportMode = ModbusTransportMode.Tcp;
+        if (dto.Transport is not null && !Enum.TryParse(dto.Transport, ignoreCase: true, out transportMode))
+        {
+            return (null, $"Config has unknown Transport '{dto.Transport}'. " +
+                $"Expected one of {string.Join(", ", Enum.GetNames<ModbusTransportMode>())}");
+        }
+
         var timeout = dto.TimeoutMs is { } ms && ms > 0 ? TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(ms) : fallbackTimeout;
-        return (new ProbeTarget(dto.Host!, port, dto.UnitId ?? 1, timeout), null);
+        return (new ProbeTarget(dto.Host!, port, dto.UnitId ?? 1, timeout, transportMode), null);
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
@@ -72,9 +83,17 @@ public sealed class ModbusDriverProbe : IDriverProbe
         using var cts = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(ct);
         cts.CancelAfter(timeout);
 
-        // Phase 1 — TCP connect (using ModbusTcpTransport which handles IPv4 preference).
+        // Phase 1 — TCP connect, over whichever transport the config's Transport mode selects
+        // (ModbusTransportFactory is the single mapping point — same switch the live driver uses).
         // autoReconnect=false: this is a one-shot probe, no retry loops.
-        var transport = new ModbusTcpTransport(host, port, timeout, autoReconnect: false);
+        var transport = ModbusTransportFactory.Create(new ModbusDriverOptions
+        {
+            Host = host,
+            Port = port,
+            Timeout = timeout,
+            Transport = t.Transport,
+            AutoReconnect = false,
+        });
         await using (transport.ConfigureAwait(false))
         {
             try

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusRtuFraming.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Modbus RTU framing: builds a request ADU (<c>[unitId] + PDU + CRC</c>) and deframes a
+///     response back to its bare PDU. Byte-stream-agnostic — it operates on a <see cref="Stream"/>
+///     and knows nothing about sockets or serial ports, so a future serial transport can reuse it.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     <para>
+///         The single genuinely-new correctness risk of the RTU path: an RTU frame carries <b>no
+///         length field</b> (unlike TCP's MBAP header), so the response size must be derived from
+///         the function code. After reading <c>addr(1)</c> + <c>fc(1)</c>, the remaining byte count
+///         is one of three shapes:
+///     </para>
+///     <list type="table">
+///         <listheader><term>Shape</term><description>Trailing bytes after <c>addr,fc</c></description></listheader>
+///         <item>
+///             <term>Exception (<c>fc &amp; 0x80</c>)</term>
+///             <description><c>excCode(1)</c> + <c>CRC(2)</c></description>
+///         </item>
+///         <item>
+///             <term>Read (FC 01/02/03/04)</term>
+///             <description><c>byteCount(1)</c> then <c>byteCount</c> data bytes + <c>CRC(2)</c></description>
+///         </item>
+///         <item>
+///             <term>Write echo (FC 05/06/15/16)</term>
+///             <description>fixed <c>4</c> bytes + <c>CRC(2)</c></description>
+///         </item>
+///     </list>
+///     <para>
+///         The trailing CRC is validated over <c>[addr, ...pdu]</c> (everything except the two CRC
+///         bytes) <b>before</b> the frame is interpreted — so a corrupt exception frame surfaces as a
+///         desync, never as a bogus <see cref="ModbusException"/>. A CRC mismatch or a short read
+///         (truncation / stream closed mid-frame) throws <see cref="ModbusTransportDesyncException"/>;
+///         a CRC-valid exception PDU throws <see cref="ModbusException"/> carrying the original
+///         function code (<c>fc &amp; 0x7F</c>) and exception code.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         Once the CRC passes, the response's address byte is validated against the addressed unit.
+///         On an RS-485 multi-drop bus a CRC-valid reply from the <b>wrong</b> slave would otherwise be
+///         silently accepted as the addressed unit's data; such a frame is a unit-mismatch
+///         <see cref="ModbusTransportDesyncException"/>. This ordering is deliberate — a corrupt frame
+///         stays a CRC/desync failure, and only a coherent-but-mis-addressed frame becomes a
+///         unit-mismatch desync.
+///     </para>
+/// </remarks>
+public static class ModbusRtuFraming
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Builds an RTU request ADU: the unit id, the PDU, and the trailing CRC-16/MODBUS
+    ///     (appended low byte first).
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="unitId">The RTU slave/unit address.</param>
+    /// <param name="pdu">The bare PDU (function code + data).</param>
+    /// <returns>A new array: <c>[unitId, ...pdu, crcLo, crcHi]</c>.</returns>
+    public static byte[] BuildAdu(byte unitId, ReadOnlySpan<byte> pdu)
+    {
+        var frame = new byte[1 + pdu.Length];
+        frame[0] = unitId;
+        pdu.CopyTo(frame.AsSpan(1));
+        return ModbusCrc.Append(frame);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Reads a single RTU response frame from <paramref name="stream"/> and returns its bare PDU
+    ///     (<c>[fc, ...data]</c>), with the leading unit-id and trailing CRC stripped.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="stream">The byte stream to read the response from.</param>
+    /// <param name="expectedUnit">
+    ///     The unit id the request was addressed to. The response's address byte is validated against
+    ///     it after the CRC passes; a mismatch is a unit-mismatch desync.
+    /// </param>
+    /// <param name="ct">A token to cancel the read.</param>
+    /// <returns>The bare response PDU (function code followed by its data).</returns>
+    /// <exception cref="ModbusTransportDesyncException">
+    ///     The frame was truncated (stream closed mid-frame), its trailing CRC did not validate, or its
+    ///     address byte did not match <paramref name="expectedUnit"/>.
+    /// </exception>
+    /// <exception cref="ModbusException">
+    ///     The frame was a CRC-valid Modbus exception PDU (high bit set on the function code).
+    /// </exception>
+    public static async Task<byte[]> ReadResponsePduAsync(
+        Stream stream, byte expectedUnit, CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        // Header: addr(1) + fc(1). The function code selects how many more bytes to read.
+        var header = new byte[2];
+        await ReadExactlyAsync(stream, header, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        var fc = header[1];
+
+        int trailing; // bytes after addr+fc, up to and including the 2 CRC bytes.
+        if ((fc & 0x80) != 0)
+        {
+            // Exception frame: excCode(1) + CRC(2).
+            trailing = 1 + 2;
+        }
+        else if (fc is 0x01 or 0x02 or 0x03 or 0x04)
+        {
+            // Read response: byteCount(1) then byteCount data bytes + CRC(2).
+            var bc = new byte[1];
+            await ReadExactlyAsync(stream, bc, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            var byteCount = bc[0];
+            var rest = new byte[byteCount + 2];
+            await ReadExactlyAsync(stream, rest, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            return ValidateAndStrip(expectedUnit, header, bc, rest);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // Fixed 4-byte echo: correct for the write FCs this driver emits (05/06/0F/10). A future
+            // variable-length response FC outside 01-04 (e.g. FC23) would be mis-sized here and
+            // surface as a desync — revisit the FC-shape table if the driver starts emitting one.
+            trailing = 4 + 2;
+        }
+
+        var tail = new byte[trailing];
+        await ReadExactlyAsync(stream, tail, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        return ValidateAndStrip(expectedUnit, header, ReadOnlySpan<byte>.Empty, tail);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Assembles the full frame from its pieces, validates the trailing CRC over everything
+    ///     except the CRC bytes, then validates the response address against
+    ///     <paramref name="expectedUnit"/> and strips <c>addr</c> + <c>CRC</c> to return the bare PDU.
+    ///     A CRC-valid exception PDU throws <see cref="ModbusException"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static byte[] ValidateAndStrip(
+        byte expectedUnit, ReadOnlySpan<byte> header, ReadOnlySpan<byte> middle, ReadOnlySpan<byte> tail)
+    {
+        // Reassemble the whole frame: header(addr,fc) + middle(optional byteCount) + tail.
+        var frame = new byte[header.Length + middle.Length + tail.Length];
+        header.CopyTo(frame);
+        middle.CopyTo(frame.AsSpan(header.Length));
+        tail.CopyTo(frame.AsSpan(header.Length + middle.Length));
+
+        // CRC covers everything except the trailing 2 CRC bytes.
+        var body = frame.AsSpan(0, frame.Length - 2);
+        var expected = ModbusCrc.Compute(body);
+        var actual = (ushort)(frame[^2] | (frame[^1] << 8));
+        if (actual != expected)
+            throw new ModbusTransportDesyncException(
+                ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.CrcMismatch,
+                $"Modbus RTU CRC mismatch: computed {expected:X4} got {actual:X4}");
+
+        // Unit-address validation runs only AFTER the CRC passes: a corrupt frame is a CRC/desync
+        // failure, and only a coherent-but-mis-addressed frame (a CRC-valid reply from the wrong
+        // RS-485 slave) is a unit-mismatch desync. Never silently accept another unit's data.
+        var addr = frame[0];
+        if (addr != expectedUnit)
+            throw new ModbusTransportDesyncException(
+                ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.UnitMismatch,
+                $"Modbus RTU unit mismatch: expected {expectedUnit} got {addr}");
+
+        // Bare PDU = frame minus leading addr and trailing CRC.
+        var pdu = body[1..].ToArray();
+
+        // Exception PDU: high bit set on the function code. The CRC already validated, so this is a
+        // coherent protocol-level error — surface the ORIGINAL function code (fc & 0x7F).
+        if ((pdu[0] & 0x80) != 0)
+        {
+            var fc = (byte)(pdu[0] & 0x7F);
+            var exCode = pdu[1];
+            throw new ModbusException(fc, exCode, $"Modbus exception fc={fc} code={exCode}");
+        }
+
+        return pdu;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Fills <paramref name="buf"/> completely from <paramref name="stream"/>, throwing a
+    ///     truncation desync if the stream ends first. Mirrors
+    ///     <c>ModbusTcpTransport.ReadExactlyAsync</c>, but normalises the end-of-stream to a
+    ///     <see cref="ModbusTransportDesyncException"/> so a length-less RTU frame that arrives
+    ///     short is classified as a desync rather than a bare <see cref="EndOfStreamException"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static async Task ReadExactlyAsync(Stream stream, byte[] buf, CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        var read = 0;
+        while (read < buf.Length)
+        {
+            var n = await stream.ReadAsync(buf.AsMemory(read), ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            if (n == 0)
+                throw new ModbusTransportDesyncException(
+                    ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.TruncatedFrame,
+                    $"Modbus RTU frame truncated: expected {buf.Length} bytes, got {read}");
+            read += n;
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+using System.Net.Sockets;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Concrete Modbus RTU-over-TCP transport. Composes <see cref="ModbusSocketLifecycle"/> for the
+///     connect / reconnect / keep-alive / idle machinery and <see cref="ModbusRtuFraming"/> for the
+///     wire layout — the same lifecycle <see cref="ModbusTcpTransport"/> uses, but with CRC framing
+///     instead of MBAP.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     <para>
+///         Delta from <see cref="ModbusTcpTransport"/>: an RTU ADU is <c>[unitId][PDU][CRC]</c> with
+///         <b>no MBAP header and no transaction id</b>. Because there is no TxId to correlate
+///         interleaved responses, at most one transaction may be on the bus at a time — the
+///         <see cref="_gate"/> single-flight is therefore <b>mandatory</b>, not merely a
+///         diagnostics convenience.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         Survives mid-transaction socket drops the same way the TCP transport does: a socket-level
+///         failure (<see cref="IOException"/> / <see cref="SocketException"/> /
+///         <see cref="EndOfStreamException"/>, and the <see cref="ModbusTransportDesyncException"/>
+///         that derives from <see cref="IOException"/>) triggers a single reconnect-then-retry; a
+///         second failure bubbles up so the driver's health surface reflects the real state.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         Every transaction runs under a per-op deadline (a linked
+///         <see cref="CancellationTokenSource.CancelAfter(TimeSpan)"/>, design §7 / R2-01) so a
+///         frozen gateway can never wedge a poll: the deadline firing is normalised to a
+///         <see cref="ModbusTransportDesyncException"/> and tears the socket down so the next attempt
+///         reconnects. A <b>caller</b> cancellation is distinguished from that timeout and propagates
+///         as a plain <see cref="OperationCanceledException"/> with no teardown.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         The constructor is connection-free; all socket I/O happens in <see cref="ConnectAsync"/> /
+///         <see cref="SendAsync"/>. The <see cref="ForTest"/> seam injects a pre-connected
+///         <see cref="Stream"/> (an in-memory duplex fake) so the send/receive orchestration,
+///         single-flight, and deadline can be exercised with no socket — in that path
+///         <see cref="_life"/> is <see langword="null"/> and the idle / reconnect machinery is
+///         skipped (a raw injected stream cannot reconnect).
+///     </para>
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed class ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
+{
+    private readonly ModbusSocketLifecycle? _life;
+    private readonly Stream? _testStream;
+    private readonly TimeSpan _timeout;
+    private readonly SemaphoreSlim _gate = new(1, 1);
+    private bool _disposed;
+
+    /// <summary>Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport"/> class.</summary>
+    /// <param name="host">The host address or hostname of the Modbus gateway.</param>
+    /// <param name="port">The TCP port of the Modbus gateway.</param>
+    /// <param name="timeout">The timeout for socket operations and the per-op response deadline.</param>
+    /// <param name="autoReconnect">Whether to automatically reconnect on socket failures.</param>
+    /// <param name="keepAlive">Optional keep-alive configuration for the socket.</param>
+    /// <param name="idleDisconnect">Optional duration after which an idle socket is disconnected.</param>
+    /// <param name="reconnect">Optional reconnect backoff configuration.</param>
+    public ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport(
+        string host, int port, TimeSpan timeout, bool autoReconnect = true,
+        ModbusKeepAliveOptions? keepAlive = null,
+        TimeSpan? idleDisconnect = null,
+        ModbusReconnectOptions? reconnect = null)
+    {
+        _timeout = timeout;
+        _life = new ModbusSocketLifecycle(host, port, timeout, autoReconnect, keepAlive, idleDisconnect, reconnect);
+    }
+
+    private ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport(Stream testStream, TimeSpan timeout)
+    {
+        _timeout = timeout;
+        _testStream = testStream;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Test seam: builds a transport over a pre-connected, in-memory duplex <paramref name="stream"/>,
+    ///     bypassing <see cref="ConnectAsync"/> and the idle / reconnect machinery so the send/receive
+    ///     orchestration, single-flight, and per-op deadline can be exercised with no real socket.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="stream">A pre-connected duplex stream standing in for the socket.</param>
+    /// <param name="timeout">The per-op response deadline.</param>
+    /// <returns>A transport driving <paramref name="stream"/> directly.</returns>
+    internal static ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport ForTest(Stream stream, TimeSpan timeout) => new(stream, timeout);
+
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public Task ConnectAsync(CancellationToken ct) =>
+        // The ForTest seam is handed a pre-connected stream — nothing to dial.
+        _life is null ? Task.CompletedTask : _life.ConnectAsync(ct);
+
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public async Task<byte[]> SendAsync(byte unitId, byte[] pdu, CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        if (_disposed) throw new ObjectDisposedException(nameof(ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport));
+        if (CurrentStream is null) throw new InvalidOperationException("Transport not connected");
+
+        // Single-flight: RTU carries no transaction id, so at most one transaction may be on the bus
+        // at a time — serialise every send/receive under the gate.
+        await _gate.WaitAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        try
+        {
+            // Proactive idle-disconnect (real socket only): if the socket has been quiet longer than
+            // the configured threshold, tear it down + reconnect before this PDU lands. Defends
+            // against silent NAT / firewall reaping.
+            if (_life is not null && _life.ShouldReconnectForIdle())
+            {
+                await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+                await _life.ConnectWithBackoffAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            }
+
+            try
+            {
+                var result = await SendOnceAsync(unitId, pdu, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                _life?.MarkSuccess();
+                return result;
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex) when (_life is not null && _life.AutoReconnect && ModbusSocketLifecycle.IsSocketLevelFailure(ex))
+            {
+                // Mid-transaction drop: tear down the dead socket, reconnect (with backoff if
+                // configured), resend. Single retry — a second failure propagates so health/status
+                // reflect reality. Never reached in the ForTest seam (a raw injected stream has no
+                // lifecycle to reconnect).
+                await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+                await _life.ConnectWithBackoffAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                var result = await SendOnceAsync(unitId, pdu, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                _life.MarkSuccess();
+                return result;
+            }
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            _gate.Release();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>The live stream: the lifecycle's <see cref="NetworkStream"/>, or the injected test stream.</summary>
+    private Stream? CurrentStream => _life?.Stream ?? _testStream;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Executes exactly one RTU transaction on the current stream: build the ADU, write + flush,
+    ///     read back one deframed response PDU. See the class remarks for the desync / timeout /
+    ///     caller-cancel handling.
+    /// </summary>
+    private async Task<byte[]> SendOnceAsync(byte unitId, byte[] pdu, CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        var stream = CurrentStream;
+        if (stream is null) throw new InvalidOperationException("Transport not connected");
+
+        // RTU ADU: [unitId] + PDU + CRC — no MBAP header, no TxId.
+        var adu = ModbusRtuFraming.BuildAdu(unitId, pdu);
+
+        using var cts = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(ct);
+        cts.CancelAfter(_timeout);
+        try
+        {
+            await stream.WriteAsync(adu.AsMemory(), cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await stream.FlushAsync(cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+            // Framing owns the length-less RTU deframe + CRC + unit-address validation. A CRC-valid
+            // exception PDU throws ModbusException (socket still coherent — propagates, no teardown);
+            // truncation / CRC / unit-mismatch throw ModbusTransportDesyncException.
+            return await ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(stream, unitId, cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        }
+        catch (ModbusTransportDesyncException)
+        {
+            // Framing violation: the stream is desynchronized — never reuse it.
+            if (_life is not null) await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+            throw;
+        }
+        catch (OperationCanceledException) when (!ct.IsCancellationRequested)
+        {
+            // Per-op timeout fired (NOT the caller). The response is unknown / may still land later
+            // and corrupt the next read — tear the socket down and normalise as a desync so the
+            // reconnect retry / status mapping engages.
+            if (_life is not null) await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+            throw new ModbusTransportDesyncException(
+                ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.Timeout,
+                $"Modbus per-op response timeout after {_timeout.TotalMilliseconds:0}ms");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Asynchronously disposes the transport and underlying socket resources.</summary>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
+    public async ValueTask DisposeAsync()
+    {
+        if (_disposed) return;
+        _disposed = true;
+        if (_life is not null) await _life.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+        _gate.Dispose();
+    }
+}

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusSocketLifecycle.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
+using System.Net.Sockets;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Owns the raw TCP socket lifecycle shared by every Modbus-over-TCP transport (MBAP and
+///     RTU-over-TCP alike): the IPv4-preference connect, OS-level keep-alive, geometric-backoff
+///     reconnect, idle-disconnect tracking, and teardown. It exposes the current
+///     <see cref="NetworkStream"/> so the composing transport can drive its own framing on top —
+///     the lifecycle knows nothing about MBAP / RTU wire layout.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     <para>
+///         Extracted verbatim from <see cref="ModbusTcpTransport"/> so the connect / reconnect /
+///         keep-alive / idle behaviour is written once and composed by both transports. The
+///         constructor is connection-free — all socket I/O happens in <see cref="ConnectAsync"/> /
+///         <see cref="ConnectWithBackoffAsync"/>.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         Why keep-alive matters for DL205/DL260: the AutomationDirect H2-ECOM100 does NOT send
+///         TCP keepalives per <c>docs/v2/dl205.md</c> §behavioral-oddities, so any NAT/firewall
+///         between the gateway and PLC can silently close an idle socket after 2-5 minutes.
+///         Enabling OS-level <c>SO_KEEPALIVE</c> lets the driver's own side detect a stuck socket
+///         in reasonable time even when the application is mostly idle.
+///     </para>
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed class ModbusSocketLifecycle : IAsyncDisposable
+{
+    private readonly string _host;
+    private readonly int _port;
+    private readonly TimeSpan _timeout;
+    private readonly bool _autoReconnect;
+    private readonly ModbusKeepAliveOptions _keepAlive;
+    private readonly TimeSpan? _idleDisconnect;
+    private readonly ModbusReconnectOptions _reconnect;
+    private TcpClient? _client;
+    private NetworkStream? _stream;
+    private DateTime _lastSuccessUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
+
+    /// <summary>Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ModbusSocketLifecycle"/> class.</summary>
+    /// <param name="host">The host address or hostname of the Modbus server.</param>
+    /// <param name="port">The TCP port of the Modbus server.</param>
+    /// <param name="timeout">The timeout for socket operations.</param>
+    /// <param name="autoReconnect">Whether to automatically reconnect on socket failures.</param>
+    /// <param name="keepAlive">Optional keep-alive configuration for the socket.</param>
+    /// <param name="idleDisconnect">Optional duration after which an idle socket is disconnected.</param>
+    /// <param name="reconnect">Optional reconnect backoff configuration.</param>
+    public ModbusSocketLifecycle(
+        string host, int port, TimeSpan timeout, bool autoReconnect = true,
+        ModbusKeepAliveOptions? keepAlive = null,
+        TimeSpan? idleDisconnect = null,
+        ModbusReconnectOptions? reconnect = null)
+    {
+        _host = host;
+        _port = port;
+        _timeout = timeout;
+        _autoReconnect = autoReconnect;
+        _keepAlive = keepAlive ?? new ModbusKeepAliveOptions();
+        _idleDisconnect = idleDisconnect;
+        _reconnect = reconnect ?? new ModbusReconnectOptions();
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Gets the current live <see cref="NetworkStream"/>, or <see langword="null"/> when not connected.</summary>
+    public NetworkStream? Stream => _stream;
+
+    /// <summary>Gets a value indicating whether auto-reconnect on socket failures is enabled.</summary>
+    public bool AutoReconnect => _autoReconnect;
+
+    /// <summary>Establishes a connection to the Modbus server, preferring IPv4.</summary>
+    /// <param name="ct">A cancellation token to observe for cancellation.</param>
+    /// <returns>A task representing the asynchronous connection operation.</returns>
+    public async Task ConnectAsync(CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        // Resolve the host explicitly + prefer IPv4. .NET's TcpClient default-constructor is
+        // dual-stack (IPv6 first, fallback to IPv4) — but most Modbus TCP devices (PLCs and
+        // simulators like pymodbus) bind 0.0.0.0 only, so the IPv6 attempt times out and we
+        // burn the entire ConnectAsync budget before even trying IPv4. Resolving first +
+        // dialing the IPv4 address directly sidesteps that.
+        var addresses = await System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddressesAsync(_host, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        var ipv4 = System.Linq.Enumerable.FirstOrDefault(addresses,
+            a => a.AddressFamily == System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork);
+        var target = ipv4 ?? (addresses.Length > 0 ? addresses[0] : System.Net.IPAddress.Loopback);
+
+        _client = new TcpClient(target.AddressFamily);
+        EnableKeepAlive(_client, _keepAlive);
+
+        using var cts = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(ct);
+        cts.CancelAfter(_timeout);
+        await _client.ConnectAsync(target, _port, cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        _stream = _client.GetStream();
+        _lastSuccessUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Connect attempt with the configured geometric backoff. The first attempt fires after
+    ///     <see cref="ModbusReconnectOptions.InitialDelay"/> (default zero — immediate); each
+    ///     subsequent attempt sleeps for the previous delay times <c>BackoffMultiplier</c>,
+    ///     capped at <c>MaxDelay</c>. Caller's cancellation token aborts the loop.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="ct">A cancellation token to observe for cancellation.</param>
+    /// <returns>A task representing the asynchronous reconnect operation.</returns>
+    public async Task ConnectWithBackoffAsync(CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        var delay = _reconnect.InitialDelay;
+        var attempt = 0;
+        while (true)
+        {
+            if (delay > TimeSpan.Zero)
+                await Task.Delay(delay, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            try
+            {
+                await ConnectAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                return;
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex) when (IsSocketLevelFailure(ex) && _autoReconnect)
+            {
+                attempt++;
+                // Geometric growth, capped. Use Math.Min on ticks so we don't overflow with
+                // pathological multipliers / long deployments.
+                var nextTicks = (long)(Math.Max(delay.Ticks, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100).Ticks) * _reconnect.BackoffMultiplier);
+                delay = TimeSpan.FromTicks(Math.Min(nextTicks, _reconnect.MaxDelay.Ticks));
+                if (attempt >= 10)
+                {
+                    // Bail after 10 attempts to surface persistent failure to the caller. With
+                    // the default backoff (1s base, 2.0x mult, 30s cap) this is roughly 4 minutes
+                    // of attempts; with InitialDelay=0 it's immediate up to the same cap.
+                    throw;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Reports whether the socket has been idle longer than the configured idle-disconnect
+    ///     threshold and should be proactively torn down + reconnected before the next transaction.
+    ///     Always <see langword="false"/> when no idle-disconnect timeout is configured.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns><see langword="true"/> when the idle threshold has been exceeded.</returns>
+    public bool ShouldReconnectForIdle() =>
+        _idleDisconnect.HasValue && DateTime.UtcNow - _lastSuccessUtc > _idleDisconnect.Value;
+
+    /// <summary>Records that a transaction just succeeded, resetting the idle-disconnect clock.</summary>
+    public void MarkSuccess() => _lastSuccessUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
+
+    /// <summary>Tears down the current socket + stream, leaving the lifecycle ready to reconnect.</summary>
+    /// <returns>A task representing the asynchronous teardown operation.</returns>
+    public async Task TearDownAsync()
+    {
+        try { if (_stream is not null) await _stream.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false); }
+        catch { /* best-effort */ }
+        _stream = null;
+        try { _client?.Dispose(); } catch { }
+        _client = null;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Enable SO_KEEPALIVE with aggressive probe timing. DL205/DL260 doesn't send keepalives
+    ///     itself; having the OS probe the socket every ~30s lets the driver notice a dead PLC
+    ///     or broken NAT path long before the default 2-hour Windows idle timeout fires.
+    ///     Non-fatal if the underlying OS rejects the option (some older Linux / container
+    ///     sandboxes don't expose the fine-grained timing levers — the driver still works,
+    ///     application-level probe still detects problems).
+    /// </summary>
+    private static void EnableKeepAlive(TcpClient client, ModbusKeepAliveOptions opts)
+    {
+        if (!opts.Enabled) return;
+        try
+        {
+            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.KeepAlive, true);
+            // A TimeSpan < 1s previously truncated to 0 via the int cast,
+            // which Windows / Linux interpret as "use the default" — silently defeating the
+            // configured keep-alive timing. Round up to at least 1 second so a sub-second
+            // configuration still produces a real keep-alive cadence. Negative values are
+            // also clamped to 1 to avoid surfacing as OS errors.
+            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Tcp, SocketOptionName.TcpKeepAliveTime,
+                ClampToWholeSeconds(opts.Time));
+            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Tcp, SocketOptionName.TcpKeepAliveInterval,
+                ClampToWholeSeconds(opts.Interval));
+            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Tcp, SocketOptionName.TcpKeepAliveRetryCount, opts.RetryCount);
+        }
+        catch { /* best-effort; older OSes may not expose the granular knobs */ }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Cast a <see cref="TimeSpan"/> to a whole number of seconds with a
+    ///     minimum of 1 — protects callers from the int-cast truncation that turned 500 ms
+    ///     keep-alive timing into "use the default" on most OSes.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="ts">The timespan to clamp to whole seconds.</param>
+    /// <returns>The clamped duration expressed as a whole number of seconds, never less than 1.</returns>
+    internal static int ClampToWholeSeconds(TimeSpan ts)
+    {
+        var seconds = (int)Math.Ceiling(ts.TotalSeconds);
+        return seconds < 1 ? 1 : seconds;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Distinguish socket-layer failures (eligible for reconnect-and-retry) from
+    ///     protocol-layer failures (must propagate — retrying the same PDU won't help if the
+    ///     PLC just returned exception 02 Illegal Data Address).
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="ex">The exception to classify.</param>
+    /// <returns><see langword="true"/> when the exception is a socket-level failure.</returns>
+    internal static bool IsSocketLevelFailure(Exception ex) =>
+        ex is EndOfStreamException
+        || ex is IOException
+        || ex is SocketException
+        || ex is ObjectDisposedException;
+
+    /// <summary>Asynchronously disposes the underlying socket + stream resources.</summary>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
+    public async ValueTask DisposeAsync()
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            if (_stream is not null) await _stream.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+        }
+        catch { /* best-effort */ }
+        _client?.Dispose();
+    }
+}

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusTcpTransport.cs

@@ -3,13 +3,19 @@ using System.Net.Sockets;
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
 
 /// <summary>
-///     Concrete Modbus TCP transport. Wraps a single <see cref="TcpClient"/> and serializes
+///     Concrete Modbus TCP transport. Wraps a single socket (owned by <see cref="ModbusSocketLifecycle"/>)
-///     requests so at most one transaction is in-flight at a time — Modbus servers typically
+///     and serializes requests so at most one transaction is in-flight at a time — Modbus servers
-///     support concurrent transactions, but the single-flight model keeps the wire trace
+///     typically support concurrent transactions, but the single-flight model keeps the wire trace
 ///     easy to diagnose and avoids interleaved-response correlation bugs.
 /// </summary>
 /// <remarks>
 ///     <para>
+///         Owns the MBAP framing (<see cref="SendOnceAsync"/>: 7-byte header + transaction-id
+///         pairing) and composes <see cref="ModbusSocketLifecycle"/> for the connect / reconnect /
+///         keep-alive / idle-disconnect machinery — the same lifecycle the RTU-over-TCP transport
+///         reuses with different framing.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
 ///         Survives mid-transaction socket drops: when a send/read fails with a socket-level
 ///         error (<see cref="IOException"/>, <see cref="SocketException"/>, <see cref="EndOfStreamException"/>)
 ///         the transport disposes the dead socket, reconnects, and retries the PDU exactly
@@ -26,19 +32,11 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
 /// </remarks>
 public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
 {
-    private readonly string _host;
+    private readonly ModbusSocketLifecycle _life;
-    private readonly int _port;
     private readonly TimeSpan _timeout;
-    private readonly bool _autoReconnect;
-    private readonly ModbusKeepAliveOptions _keepAlive;
-    private readonly TimeSpan? _idleDisconnect;
-    private readonly ModbusReconnectOptions _reconnect;
     private readonly SemaphoreSlim _gate = new(1, 1);
-    private TcpClient? _client;
-    private NetworkStream? _stream;
     private ushort _nextTx;
     private bool _disposed;
-    private DateTime _lastSuccessUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
 
     /// <summary>Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ModbusTcpTransport"/> class.</summary>
     /// <param name="host">The host address or hostname of the Modbus server.</param>
@@ -54,84 +52,18 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
         TimeSpan? idleDisconnect = null,
         ModbusReconnectOptions? reconnect = null)
     {
-        _host = host;
-        _port = port;
         _timeout = timeout;
-        _autoReconnect = autoReconnect;
+        _life = new ModbusSocketLifecycle(host, port, timeout, autoReconnect, keepAlive, idleDisconnect, reconnect);
-        _keepAlive = keepAlive ?? new ModbusKeepAliveOptions();
-        _idleDisconnect = idleDisconnect;
-        _reconnect = reconnect ?? new ModbusReconnectOptions();
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
-    public async Task ConnectAsync(CancellationToken ct)
+    public Task ConnectAsync(CancellationToken ct) => _life.ConnectAsync(ct);
-    {
-        // Resolve the host explicitly + prefer IPv4. .NET's TcpClient default-constructor is
-        // dual-stack (IPv6 first, fallback to IPv4) — but most Modbus TCP devices (PLCs and
-        // simulators like pymodbus) bind 0.0.0.0 only, so the IPv6 attempt times out and we
-        // burn the entire ConnectAsync budget before even trying IPv4. Resolving first +
-        // dialing the IPv4 address directly sidesteps that.
-        var addresses = await System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddressesAsync(_host, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
-        var ipv4 = System.Linq.Enumerable.FirstOrDefault(addresses,
-            a => a.AddressFamily == System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork);
-        var target = ipv4 ?? (addresses.Length > 0 ? addresses[0] : System.Net.IPAddress.Loopback);
-
-        _client = new TcpClient(target.AddressFamily);
-        EnableKeepAlive(_client, _keepAlive);
-
-        using var cts = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(ct);
-        cts.CancelAfter(_timeout);
-        await _client.ConnectAsync(target, _port, cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
-        _stream = _client.GetStream();
-        _lastSuccessUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
-    }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Enable SO_KEEPALIVE with aggressive probe timing. DL205/DL260 doesn't send keepalives
-    ///     itself; having the OS probe the socket every ~30s lets the driver notice a dead PLC
-    ///     or broken NAT path long before the default 2-hour Windows idle timeout fires.
-    ///     Non-fatal if the underlying OS rejects the option (some older Linux / container
-    ///     sandboxes don't expose the fine-grained timing levers — the driver still works,
-    ///     application-level probe still detects problems).
-    /// </summary>
-    private static void EnableKeepAlive(TcpClient client, ModbusKeepAliveOptions opts)
-    {
-        if (!opts.Enabled) return;
-        try
-        {
-            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.KeepAlive, true);
-            // A TimeSpan < 1s previously truncated to 0 via the int cast,
-            // which Windows / Linux interpret as "use the default" — silently defeating the
-            // configured keep-alive timing. Round up to at least 1 second so a sub-second
-            // configuration still produces a real keep-alive cadence. Negative values are
-            // also clamped to 1 to avoid surfacing as OS errors.
-            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Tcp, SocketOptionName.TcpKeepAliveTime,
-                ClampToWholeSeconds(opts.Time));
-            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Tcp, SocketOptionName.TcpKeepAliveInterval,
-                ClampToWholeSeconds(opts.Interval));
-            client.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Tcp, SocketOptionName.TcpKeepAliveRetryCount, opts.RetryCount);
-        }
-        catch { /* best-effort; older OSes may not expose the granular knobs */ }
-    }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Cast a <see cref="TimeSpan"/> to a whole number of seconds with a
-    ///     minimum of 1 — protects callers from the int-cast truncation that turned 500 ms
-    ///     keep-alive timing into "use the default" on most OSes.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="ts">The timespan to clamp to whole seconds.</param>
-    /// <returns>The clamped duration expressed as a whole number of seconds, never less than 1.</returns>
-    internal static int ClampToWholeSeconds(TimeSpan ts)
-    {
-        var seconds = (int)Math.Ceiling(ts.TotalSeconds);
-        return seconds < 1 ? 1 : seconds;
-    }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
     public async Task<byte[]> SendAsync(byte unitId, byte[] pdu, CancellationToken ct)
     {
         if (_disposed) throw new ObjectDisposedException(nameof(ModbusTcpTransport));
-        if (_stream is null) throw new InvalidOperationException("Transport not connected");
+        if (_life.Stream is null) throw new InvalidOperationException("Transport not connected");
 
         await _gate.WaitAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
         try
@@ -140,27 +72,27 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
             // threshold, tear it down + reconnect before this PDU lands. Defends against silent
             // NAT / firewall reaping where the socket looks alive locally but the upstream side
             // dropped it minutes ago.
-            if (_idleDisconnect.HasValue && DateTime.UtcNow - _lastSuccessUtc > _idleDisconnect.Value)
+            if (_life.ShouldReconnectForIdle())
             {
-                await TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+                await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
-                await ConnectWithBackoffAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                await _life.ConnectWithBackoffAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
             }
 
             try
             {
                 var result = await SendOnceAsync(unitId, pdu, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
-                _lastSuccessUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
+                _life.MarkSuccess();
                 return result;
             }
-            catch (Exception ex) when (_autoReconnect && IsSocketLevelFailure(ex))
+            catch (Exception ex) when (_life.AutoReconnect && ModbusSocketLifecycle.IsSocketLevelFailure(ex))
             {
                 // Mid-transaction drop: tear down the dead socket, reconnect (with backoff if
                 // configured), resend. Single retry — if it fails again, let it propagate so
                 // health/status reflect reality.
-                await TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+                await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
-                await ConnectWithBackoffAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                await _life.ConnectWithBackoffAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
                 var result = await SendOnceAsync(unitId, pdu, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
-                _lastSuccessUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
+                _life.MarkSuccess();
                 return result;
             }
         }
@@ -170,43 +102,6 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
         }
     }
 
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Connect attempt with the configured geometric backoff. The first attempt fires after
-    ///     <see cref="ModbusReconnectOptions.InitialDelay"/> (default zero — immediate); each
-    ///     subsequent attempt sleeps for the previous delay times <c>BackoffMultiplier</c>,
-    ///     capped at <c>MaxDelay</c>. Caller's cancellation token aborts the loop.
-    /// </summary>
-    private async Task ConnectWithBackoffAsync(CancellationToken ct)
-    {
-        var delay = _reconnect.InitialDelay;
-        var attempt = 0;
-        while (true)
-        {
-            if (delay > TimeSpan.Zero)
-                await Task.Delay(delay, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
-            try
-            {
-                await ConnectAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
-                return;
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex) when (IsSocketLevelFailure(ex) && _autoReconnect)
-            {
-                attempt++;
-                // Geometric growth, capped. Use Math.Min on ticks so we don't overflow with
-                // pathological multipliers / long deployments.
-                var nextTicks = (long)(Math.Max(delay.Ticks, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100).Ticks) * _reconnect.BackoffMultiplier);
-                delay = TimeSpan.FromTicks(Math.Min(nextTicks, _reconnect.MaxDelay.Ticks));
-                if (attempt >= 10)
-                {
-                    // Bail after 10 attempts to surface persistent failure to the caller. With
-                    // the default backoff (1s base, 2.0x mult, 30s cap) this is roughly 4 minutes
-                    // of attempts; with InitialDelay=0 it's immediate up to the same cap.
-                    throw;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     /// <summary>
     ///     Executes exactly one Modbus transaction on the current socket.
     /// </summary>
@@ -230,7 +125,8 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
     /// </remarks>
     private async Task<byte[]> SendOnceAsync(byte unitId, byte[] pdu, CancellationToken ct)
     {
-        if (_stream is null) throw new InvalidOperationException("Transport not connected");
+        var stream = _life.Stream;
+        if (stream is null) throw new InvalidOperationException("Transport not connected");
         var txId = ++_nextTx;
 
         // MBAP: [TxId(2)][Proto=0(2)][Length(2)][UnitId(1)] + PDU
@@ -248,11 +144,11 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
         cts.CancelAfter(_timeout);
         try
         {
-            await _stream.WriteAsync(adu.AsMemory(), cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await stream.WriteAsync(adu.AsMemory(), cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
-            await _stream.FlushAsync(cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await stream.FlushAsync(cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
             var header = new byte[7];
-            await ReadExactlyAsync(_stream, header, cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await ReadExactlyAsync(stream, header, cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
             var respTxId = (ushort)((header[0] << 8) | header[1]);
             if (respTxId != txId)
                 throw new ModbusTransportDesyncException(
@@ -264,7 +160,7 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
                     ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.TruncatedFrame,
                     $"Modbus response length too small: {respLen}");
             var respPdu = new byte[respLen - 1];
-            await ReadExactlyAsync(_stream, respPdu, cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await ReadExactlyAsync(stream, respPdu, cts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
             // Exception PDU: function code has high bit set. This is a well-formed protocol-level
             // error — the socket is still coherent, so it MUST propagate without teardown.
@@ -280,7 +176,7 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
         catch (ModbusTransportDesyncException)
         {
             // Framing violation: the socket is desynchronized — never reuse it.
-            await TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
             throw;
         }
         catch (OperationCanceledException) when (!ct.IsCancellationRequested)
@@ -288,33 +184,13 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
             // Per-op timeout fired (NOT the caller). The response is unknown / may still land later
             // and corrupt the next read — tear the socket down and normalize as a desync so the
             // reconnect retry / status mapping engages.
-            await TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+            await _life.TearDownAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
             throw new ModbusTransportDesyncException(
                 ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.Timeout,
                 $"Modbus per-op response timeout after {_timeout.TotalMilliseconds:0}ms");
         }
     }
 
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Distinguish socket-layer failures (eligible for reconnect-and-retry) from
-    ///     protocol-layer failures (must propagate — retrying the same PDU won't help if the
-    ///     PLC just returned exception 02 Illegal Data Address).
-    /// </summary>
-    private static bool IsSocketLevelFailure(Exception ex) =>
-        ex is EndOfStreamException
-        || ex is IOException
-        || ex is SocketException
-        || ex is ObjectDisposedException;
-
-    private async Task TearDownAsync()
-    {
-        try { if (_stream is not null) await _stream.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false); }
-        catch { /* best-effort */ }
-        _stream = null;
-        try { _client?.Dispose(); } catch { }
-        _client = null;
-    }
-
     private static async Task ReadExactlyAsync(Stream s, byte[] buf, CancellationToken ct)
     {
         var read = 0;
@@ -332,12 +208,7 @@ public sealed class ModbusTcpTransport : IModbusTransport
     {
         if (_disposed) return;
         _disposed = true;
-        try
+        await _life.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
-        {
-            if (_stream is not null) await _stream.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
-        }
-        catch { /* best-effort */ }
-        _client?.Dispose();
         _gate.Dispose();
     }
 }

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusTransportDesyncException.cs

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
 
 /// <summary>
-///     Raised when a Modbus TCP transaction leaves the single-flight socket in an unknown /
+///     Raised when a Modbus transaction leaves the single-flight socket in an unknown /
 ///     desynchronized state — a per-op response timeout, or a framing violation (transaction-id
-///     mismatch or truncated MBAP length). Unlike a Modbus <em>exception PDU</em> (a well-formed
+///     mismatch, truncated frame, RTU CRC mismatch, or RTU unit-address mismatch). Unlike a Modbus
+///     <em>exception PDU</em> (a well-formed
 ///     protocol-level error where the socket is still coherent and the request must simply
 ///     propagate), a desync means bytes may still be in flight or half-read, so the socket is
 ///     unusable and MUST be torn down before this is thrown.
@@ -27,8 +28,20 @@ public sealed class ModbusTransportDesyncException : IOException
         /// <summary>The response MBAP transaction id did not match the request's.</summary>
         TxIdMismatch,
 
-        /// <summary>The response MBAP length field was below the mandatory minimum (truncated frame).</summary>
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     The frame ended before it was complete — the MBAP length field was below the mandatory
+        ///     minimum (TCP), or the stream closed mid-frame while reading a length-less RTU frame.
+        /// </summary>
         TruncatedFrame,
+
+        /// <summary>The RTU frame's trailing CRC-16 did not validate over the received bytes.</summary>
+        CrcMismatch,
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     A CRC-valid RTU frame carried a slave/unit address other than the one addressed — on an
+        ///     RS-485 multi-drop bus, a reply from the wrong slave.
+        /// </summary>
+        UnitMismatch,
     }
 
     /// <summary>Gets the reason the socket was classified desynchronized.</summary>

src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusTransportFactory.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Single mapping point from <see cref="ModbusDriverOptions"/> to the concrete
+///     <see cref="IModbusTransport"/> its <see cref="ModbusDriverOptions.Transport"/> selects.
+///     Consumed by both <see cref="ModbusDriver"/>'s default transport-factory closure and the
+///     AdminUI Test-Connect probe, so the <see cref="ModbusTransportMode"/> switch lives in
+///     exactly one place.
+/// </summary>
+public static class ModbusTransportFactory
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Builds the transport <paramref name="options"/>.<see cref="ModbusDriverOptions.Transport"/>
+    ///     selects, threading every shared connection setting (Host/Port/Timeout/AutoReconnect/
+    ///     KeepAlive/IdleDisconnectTimeout/Reconnect) through to whichever concrete transport is built.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="options">Driver configuration options.</param>
+    /// <returns>A <see cref="ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport"/> when <see cref="ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp"/>
+    /// is selected; a <see cref="ModbusTcpTransport"/> when <see cref="ModbusTransportMode.Tcp"/> is selected.</returns>
+    /// <exception cref="ArgumentOutOfRangeException">
+    /// <paramref name="options"/>.<see cref="ModbusDriverOptions.Transport"/> is not a recognized
+    /// <see cref="ModbusTransportMode"/> member — fail loudly rather than silently falling back to TCP/MBAP.
+    /// </exception>
+    public static IModbusTransport Create(ModbusDriverOptions options)
+    {
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(options);
+        return options.Transport switch
+        {
+            ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp => new ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport(
+                options.Host, options.Port, options.Timeout, options.AutoReconnect,
+                keepAlive: options.KeepAlive,
+                idleDisconnect: options.IdleDisconnectTimeout,
+                reconnect: options.Reconnect),
+            ModbusTransportMode.Tcp => new ModbusTcpTransport(
+                options.Host, options.Port, options.Timeout, options.AutoReconnect,
+                keepAlive: options.KeepAlive,
+                idleDisconnect: options.IdleDisconnectTimeout,
+                reconnect: options.Reconnect),
+            _ => throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(
+                nameof(options), options.Transport, "Unknown Modbus transport mode."),
+        };
+    }
+}

src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/Components/Pages/Clusters/NodeEdit.razor

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 @using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
 @using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration
 @using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Entities
+@using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Validation
+@using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions
 @inject IDbContextFactory<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext> DbFactory
 @inject NavigationManager Nav
 @inject AuthenticationStateProvider AuthState
@@ -34,6 +36,10 @@ else
 {
     <EditForm Model="_form" OnValidSubmit="SubmitAsync" FormName="nodeEdit">
         <DataAnnotationsValidator />
+        @* Without this, a validation failure suppresses OnValidSubmit with NO feedback whatsoever —
+           the Save button simply does nothing and the operator has no way to tell why. That is how the
+           NodeId-regex defect above stayed invisible. *@
+        <ValidationSummary class="alert alert-danger py-2 px-3" />
         <section class="panel rise" style="animation-delay:.02s">
             <div class="panel-head">Identity</div>
             <div style="padding:1rem">
@@ -178,6 +184,33 @@ else
             }
 
             await using var db = await DbFactory.CreateDbContextAsync();
+
+            // #499 — the third Sql-credential surface. DriverConfigOverridesJson is merged onto the
+            // cluster-level DriverConfig, so a literal connectionString pasted here leaks exactly as one
+            // pasted into the driver itself. The deploy gate cannot see it (DraftSnapshot carries no
+            // ClusterNode rows) and would be the wrong place anyway: node overrides never enter the
+            // artifact, so by the time a deploy ran the credential would already be stored. Refuse the
+            // save instead. The message names the driver instance but NEVER the value.
+            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_form.DriverConfigOverridesJson))
+            {
+                var sqlDriverIds = await db.DriverInstances
+                    .Where(d => d.ClusterId == ClusterId && d.DriverType == DriverTypeNames.Sql)
+                    .Select(d => d.DriverInstanceId)
+                    .ToListAsync();
+
+                var offenders = SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations(
+                    _form.DriverConfigOverridesJson, sqlDriverIds);
+                if (offenders.Count > 0)
+                {
+                    _error =
+                        $"Driver config overrides carry a '{SqlCredentialGuard.ForbiddenKey}' for Sql driver " +
+                        $"instance(s) {string.Join(", ", offenders)}. A Sql driver must name its credentials " +
+                        "indirectly via 'connectionStringRef', which resolves from the environment / secret " +
+                        "store at Initialize; a literal connection string here would be stored in the config " +
+                        "database, and the runtime ignores it anyway. Remove the key.";
+                    return;
+                }
+            }
             if (IsNew)
             {
                 if (await db.ClusterNodes.AnyAsync(n => n.NodeId == _form.NodeId))
@@ -194,7 +227,7 @@ else
                     OpcUaPort = _form.OpcUaPort,
                     DashboardPort = _form.DashboardPort,
                     ApplicationUri = _form.ApplicationUri,
-                    ServiceLevelBase = _form.ServiceLevelBase,
+                    ServiceLevelBase = (byte)_form.ServiceLevelBase,
                     Enabled = _form.Enabled,
                     DriverConfigOverridesJson = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_form.DriverConfigOverridesJson) ? null : _form.DriverConfigOverridesJson,
                     CreatedAt = DateTime.UtcNow,
@@ -210,7 +243,7 @@ else
                 entity.OpcUaPort = _form.OpcUaPort;
                 entity.DashboardPort = _form.DashboardPort;
                 entity.ApplicationUri = _form.ApplicationUri;
-                entity.ServiceLevelBase = _form.ServiceLevelBase;
+                entity.ServiceLevelBase = (byte)_form.ServiceLevelBase;
                 entity.Enabled = _form.Enabled;
                 entity.DriverConfigOverridesJson = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_form.DriverConfigOverridesJson) ? null : _form.DriverConfigOverridesJson;
             }
@@ -254,14 +287,26 @@ else
 
     private sealed class FormModel
     {
-        [Required, RegularExpression("^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$")]
+        // The ':' and '.' are REQUIRED, not permissive. Every NodeId in this system is "host:port" —
+        // ClusterRoleInfo and ConfigPublishCoordinator derive it as member.Address.Host:Port, the seed
+        // writes "central-1:4053", and NodeDeploymentState.NodeId is FK-bound to it. The previous
+        // pattern forbade the colon, so EVERY existing node failed validation and OnValidSubmit never
+        // ran: the Save button did nothing at all, silently. Hostnames may also be dotted
+        // (line3-opc-a.plant.local:4053).
+        [Required, RegularExpression("^[A-Za-z0-9_.:-]+$")]
         public string NodeId { get; set; } = "";
         [Required] public string Host { get; set; } = "";
         [Range(1, 65535)] public int OpcUaPort { get; set; } = 4840;
         [Range(1, 65535)] public int DashboardPort { get; set; } = 8081;
         [Required, RegularExpression("^urn:[A-Za-z0-9_:./-]+$")]
         public string ApplicationUri { get; set; } = "";
-        [Range(0, 255)] public byte ServiceLevelBase { get; set; } = 200;
+        // int, NOT byte. Blazor's InputNumber<T> rejects System.Byte outright — its static
+        // constructor throws "The type 'System.Byte' is not a supported numeric type", which escapes
+        // BuildRenderTree unhandled and takes the WHOLE page to an HTTP 500. Binding this field to
+        // the entity's own byte type meant /clusters/{id}/nodes/{nodeId} and .../nodes/new never
+        // rendered at all. The Range attribute still holds it to a byte's domain, and SubmitAsync
+        // casts on the way to the entity, so the stored type is unchanged.
+        [Range(0, 255)] public int ServiceLevelBase { get; set; } = 200;
         public bool Enabled { get; set; } = true;
         public string? DriverConfigOverridesJson { get; set; }
     }

src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/Components/Shared/Drivers/Forms/ModbusDriverForm.razor

@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@
                     }
                 </InputSelect>
             </div>
+            <div class="col-md-3">
+                <label class="form-label">Transport</label>
+                <InputSelect @bind-Value="_form.Transport" @bind-Value:after="EmitAsync" class="form-select form-select-sm">
+                    @foreach (var e in Enum.GetValues<ModbusTransportMode>())
+                    {
+                        <option value="@e">@e</option>
+                    }
+                </InputSelect>
+                <div class="form-text">RtuOverTcp = talk raw RTU frames to a serial→Ethernet gateway; must match the gateway's mode.</div>
+            </div>
             <div class="col-md-3">
                 <label class="form-label">MELSEC sub-family</label>
                 <InputSelect @bind-Value="_form.MelsecSubFamily" @bind-Value:after="EmitAsync" class="form-select form-select-sm">
@@ -290,6 +300,9 @@
         public ModbusFamily Family { get; set; } = ModbusFamily.Generic;
         public MelsecFamily MelsecSubFamily { get; set; } = MelsecFamily.Q_L_iQR;
 
+        // Wire transport (Tcp = Modbus/TCP MBAP; RtuOverTcp = RTU framing over a serial→Ethernet gateway)
+        public ModbusTransportMode Transport { get; set; } = ModbusTransportMode.Tcp;
+
         // Transport flags
         public bool AutoReconnect { get; set; } = true;
         public int IdleDisconnectTimeoutSeconds { get; set; } = 0;
@@ -337,6 +350,7 @@
             TimeoutSeconds = (int)o.Timeout.TotalSeconds,
             Family = o.Family,
             MelsecSubFamily = o.MelsecSubFamily,
+            Transport = o.Transport,
             AutoReconnect = o.AutoReconnect,
             IdleDisconnectTimeoutSeconds = o.IdleDisconnectTimeout.HasValue ? (int)o.IdleDisconnectTimeout.Value.TotalSeconds : 0,
             MaxRegistersPerRead = o.MaxRegistersPerRead,
@@ -387,6 +401,7 @@
             MaxReadGap = (ushort)Math.Clamp(MaxReadGap, 0, 65535),
             Family = Family,
             MelsecSubFamily = MelsecSubFamily,
+            Transport = Transport,
             WriteOnChangeOnly = WriteOnChangeOnly,
             AutoReconnect = AutoReconnect,
             KeepAlive = new ModbusKeepAliveOptions

src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/ScriptAnalysis/IScriptTagCatalog.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Types;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration;
 
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI.ScriptAnalysis;
@@ -40,41 +41,42 @@ public sealed record ScriptTagInfo(string Path, string Kind, string DataType, st
 
 /// <summary>
 ///     Default <see cref="IScriptTagCatalog"/>. Returns ONLY the resolvable keys a script may pass to
-///     <c>ctx.GetTag</c> / <c>ctx.SetVirtualTag</c> — the driver <c>FullName</c> for equipment tags,
+///     <c>ctx.GetTag</c> / <c>ctx.SetVirtualTag</c> — in v3 that is a raw tag's <b>RawPath</b>, plus the
-///     the MXAccess dot-ref for FolderPath-scoped tags (<c>EquipmentId == null</c>), and the leaf
+///     leaf <c>Name</c> (best-effort) for virtual tags.
-///     <c>Name</c> (best-effort) for virtual tags.
 /// </summary>
 /// <remarks>
 ///     <para>
-///         <b>Fidelity over breadth.</b> Verified: the live runtime resolves a <c>ctx.GetTag("X")</c>
+///         <b>Fidelity over breadth.</b> This projects exactly what the live runtime resolves, and nothing
-///         literal against the driver <c>FullName</c> — the resolution chain is
+///         else. Verified chain: <c>AddressSpaceComposer</c> harvests the <c>ctx.GetTag("…")</c> literals
-///         <c>AddressSpaceComposer</c> (via <c>EquipmentScriptPaths.ExtractDependencyRefs</c>) harvesting the <c>ctx.GetTag("…")</c> literals
+///         (via <c>EquipmentScriptPaths.ExtractDependencyRefs</c>) into <c>DependencyRefs</c>; those become
-///         into <c>EquipmentVirtualTagPlan.DependencyRefs</c>
+///         <c>VirtualTagActor._dependencyRefs</c>, registered with <c>DependencyMuxActor</c>, whose
-///         (<c>src/Server/…OpcUaServer/AddressSpaceComposer.cs</c>); those become
+///         <c>_byRef</c> map is keyed (Ordinal) by <c>DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValuePublished.FullReference</c>
-///         <c>VirtualTagActor._dependencyRefs</c>, registered with the
+///         — and in v3 a driver's wire reference <b>is the RawPath</b>
-///         <c>DependencyMuxActor</c>, whose <c>_byRef</c> map is keyed by
+///         (<c>DriverHostActor._nodeIdByDriverRef</c> is keyed <c>(DriverInstanceId, RawPath)</c>).
-///         <c>DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValuePublished.FullReference</c>
-///         (<c>src/Server/…Runtime/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActor.cs:97</c>) — and that
-///         <c>FullReference</c> is the <c>FullName</c> field extracted from <c>Tag.TagConfig</c>
-///         (see <c>Commons.Types.TagConfigIntent.Parse</c>, the shared byte-parity FullName authority).
-///         The UNS-path engine (<c>Core.VirtualTags.VirtualTagEngine</c>, keyed by a slash-joined
-///         <c>Enterprise/Site/Area/Line/Equipment/TagName</c>) is dormant — it is NOT wired into the
-///         host — so UNS browse paths never resolve at runtime and are intentionally NOT suggested.
 ///     </para>
 ///     <para>
-///         The per-category resolvable key:
+///         <b>This replaced a stale v2 projection (Gitea #490).</b> The catalog used to emit
-///         <list type="bullet">
+///         <c>Tag.TagConfig.FullName</c> — the pre-v3 wire address — which since v3 is <i>not</i> the mux
-///           <item>Equipment driver tag (<c>EquipmentId != null</c>) → the driver <c>FullName</c>
+///         key. The consequence was worse than the missing feature the issue reported: completion offered
-///           extracted from <c>Tag.TagConfig</c> (the verified <c>DependencyMux</c> key).
+///         paths that could never resolve at runtime, while a <b>correct</b> absolute RawPath got no
-///           GalaxyMxGateway is a standard Equipment-kind driver, so Galaxy points resolve
+///         completion and hovered as "not a known configured tag path". Both directions are now right.
-///           by this same <c>FullName</c> key.</item>
-///           <item>VirtualTag → its leaf <c>Name</c> only, as a BEST-EFFORT key (the live resolution
-///           of virtual-tag cascade/write targets is unconfirmed).</item>
-///         </list>
 ///     </para>
 ///     <para>
-///         Follow-up: surface the UNS browse path as a completion <i>detail</i> (a non-inserted hint
+///         RawPaths are built through the shared <see cref="RawPathResolver"/> — the same byte-parity
-///         shown alongside the resolvable key) for discoverability, rather than as an inserted value.
+///         authority <c>DraftValidator</c> and <c>AddressSpaceComposer</c> use — so a suggested path is
+///         identical to the one the deploy gate and the runtime compute. A tag whose ancestry chain is
+///         broken (unknown device / driver, invalid segment) resolves to <see langword="null"/> and is
+///         omitted: the runtime could not route it either, so offering it would be a lie.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         The <c>{{equip}}/&lt;RefName&gt;</c> form is served separately by
+///         <see cref="GetEquipmentReferenceNamesAsync"/>; the compose seams substitute those references to
+///         the same RawPaths listed here.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         The catalog is <b>fleet-wide</b> (no cluster filter), matching the runtime's key space: the
+///         deployed artifact is fleet-wide and the mux is keyed by RawPath alone. Two clusters using the
+///         same RawPath collapse to one suggestion, which is correct — the string is what resolves.
 ///     </para>
 ///     <para>
 ///         Each call creates and disposes its own context via the pooled factory — the same pattern
@@ -149,22 +151,43 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalog(IDbContextFactory<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext> d
     }
 
     /// <summary>
-    ///     Loads Tags + VirtualTags (untracked) and projects one <see cref="ScriptTagInfo"/> per row —
+    ///     Loads the raw topology + Tags + VirtualTags (untracked) and projects one
-    ///     the SINGLE source of the per-category resolvable-key projection shared by
+    ///     <see cref="ScriptTagInfo"/> per resolvable key — the SINGLE source of the projection shared by
-    ///     <see cref="GetPathsAsync"/> (distinct paths, prefix-filtered) and
+    ///     <see cref="GetPathsAsync"/> (distinct paths, prefix-filtered) and <see cref="GetTagInfoAsync"/>
-    ///     <see cref="GetTagInfoAsync"/> (exact Ordinal lookup).
+    ///     (exact Ordinal lookup).
     /// </summary>
     private async Task<IReadOnlyList<ScriptTagInfo>> BuildEntriesAsync(CancellationToken ct)
     {
         await using var db = await dbFactory.CreateDbContextAsync(ct);
 
-        // v3: Tag is Raw-only — EquipmentId / FolderPath / DriverInstanceId were retired (the
+        // The raw topology, fleet-wide, in the four ancestry maps RawPathResolver takes. Building the
-        // equipment↔Tag + driver bindings are gone). The resolvable key is the driver FullName carried
+        // resolver here (rather than reimplementing the join) is what keeps a suggested path
-        // in TagConfig; project only the surviving columns. (The Raw/UNS tag catalog is rebuilt in
+        // byte-identical to the one the deploy gate and the runtime compute.
-        // Batch 2/3.)
+        var folders = (await db.RawFolders.AsNoTracking()
+                .Select(f => new { f.RawFolderId, f.ParentRawFolderId, f.Name })
+                .ToListAsync(ct))
+            .ToDictionary(f => f.RawFolderId, f => ((string?)f.ParentRawFolderId, f.Name), StringComparer.Ordinal);
+
+        var drivers = (await db.DriverInstances.AsNoTracking()
+                .Select(d => new { d.DriverInstanceId, d.RawFolderId, d.Name })
+                .ToListAsync(ct))
+            .ToDictionary(d => d.DriverInstanceId, d => ((string?)d.RawFolderId, d.Name), StringComparer.Ordinal);
+
+        var devices = (await db.Devices.AsNoTracking()
+                .Select(dev => new { dev.DeviceId, dev.DriverInstanceId, dev.Name })
+                .ToListAsync(ct))
+            .ToDictionary(dev => dev.DeviceId, dev => (dev.DriverInstanceId, dev.Name), StringComparer.Ordinal);
+
+        var groups = (await db.TagGroups.AsNoTracking()
+                .Select(g => new { g.TagGroupId, g.ParentTagGroupId, g.Name })
+                .ToListAsync(ct))
+            .ToDictionary(g => g.TagGroupId, g => ((string?)g.ParentTagGroupId, g.Name), StringComparer.Ordinal);
+
+        var resolver = new RawPathResolver(folders, drivers, devices, groups);
+
         var tagRows = await db.Tags
             .AsNoTracking()
-            .Select(t => new { t.Name, t.DataType, t.TagConfig })
+            .Select(t => new { t.DeviceId, t.TagGroupId, t.Name, t.DataType })
             .ToListAsync(ct);
 
         var vtagRows = await db.VirtualTags
@@ -176,46 +199,22 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalog(IDbContextFactory<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext> d
 
         foreach (var t in tagRows)
         {
-            // The runtime GetTag key is the driver FullName from TagConfig; fall back to Name if absent.
+            // v3: the runtime GetTag key IS the RawPath. A null result means a broken/unknown ancestry
-            var full = ExtractFullNameFromTagConfig(t.TagConfig);
+            // chain — the runtime could not route that tag either, so it is omitted rather than guessed.
-            var path = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(full) ? t.Name : full;
+            var path = resolver.TryBuildTagPath(t.DeviceId, t.TagGroupId, t.Name);
-            entries.Add(new ScriptTagInfo(path, "Tag", t.DataType, null));
+            if (path is null) continue;
+
+            var driverInstanceId = devices.TryGetValue(t.DeviceId, out var dev) ? dev.DriverInstanceId : null;
+            entries.Add(new ScriptTagInfo(path, "Tag", t.DataType, driverInstanceId));
         }
 
         foreach (var v in vtagRows)
         {
             // Virtual tag — best-effort: the live resolution of virtual-tag cascade/write targets is
-            // unconfirmed, so emit the leaf Name only (no UNS browse path, which never resolves).
+            // unconfirmed, so emit the leaf Name only.
             entries.Add(new ScriptTagInfo(v.Name, "Virtual tag", v.DataType, null));
         }
 
         return entries;
     }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Extracts the driver-side full reference from a <c>Tag.TagConfig</c> JSON blob — the
-    ///     top-level <c>FullName</c> string every shipped driver stores. Mirrors
-    ///     <c>Commons.Types.TagConfigIntent.Parse(...).FullName</c> (the shared byte-parity authority;
-    ///     AdminUI does not reference that assembly here). Falls back to the raw blob when it is not
-    ///     a JSON object carrying a string <c>FullName</c>.
-    /// </summary>
-    private static string ExtractFullNameFromTagConfig(string tagConfig)
-    {
-        // Best-effort: pull the driver FullName out of the TagConfig JSON blob if present.
-        // Returns "" when absent/unparseable so the caller falls back to the tag Name — never
-        // the raw blob (which would surface as a garbage completion path).
-        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(tagConfig)) return "";
-        try
-        {
-            using var doc = System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.Parse(tagConfig);
-            if (doc.RootElement.ValueKind == System.Text.Json.JsonValueKind.Object
-                && doc.RootElement.TryGetProperty("FullName", out var fullName)
-                && fullName.ValueKind == System.Text.Json.JsonValueKind.String)
-            {
-                return fullName.GetString() ?? "";
-            }
-        }
-        catch (System.Text.Json.JsonException) { /* fall through to tag Name */ }
-        return "";
-    }
 }

src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverInstanceActor.cs

@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     /// <summary>Interval between bounded post-connect re-discovery passes. Production default 2s; tests
     /// inject a tiny value so the loop runs without real-time waits.</summary>
     private readonly TimeSpan _rediscoverInterval;
+    private readonly TimeSpan _healthPollInterval;
 
     /// <summary>Cap on the number of post-connect re-discovery passes — a backstop so a never-stabilising
     /// (or perpetually-empty) discovered set cannot spin the loop forever. Production default 15.</summary>
@@ -239,6 +240,9 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     /// <param name="rediscoverDiscoverTimeout">Optional per-pass timeout for <see cref="ITagDiscovery.DiscoverAsync"/>; defaults to 30 seconds.</param>
     /// <param name="invoker">Optional Phase 6.1 resilience invoker wrapping this driver's capability
     /// calls; defaults to <see cref="NullDriverCapabilityInvoker"/> (pass-through) when not supplied.</param>
+    /// <param name="healthPollInterval">Optional period of the health-poll heartbeat, which also drives the
+    /// subscription reconcile (<see cref="ReconcileSubscription"/>); defaults to
+    /// <see cref="HealthPollInterval"/>. Exists so a test can drive the reconcile without waiting 30 s.</param>
     /// <returns>A <see cref="Akka.Actor.Props"/> instance configured to create the wrapped <see cref="DriverInstanceActor"/>.</returns>
     public static Props Props(
         IDriver driver,
@@ -249,7 +253,8 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         TimeSpan? rediscoverInterval = null,
         int rediscoverMaxAttempts = DefaultRediscoverMaxAttempts,
         TimeSpan? rediscoverDiscoverTimeout = null,
-        IDriverCapabilityInvoker? invoker = null) =>
+        IDriverCapabilityInvoker? invoker = null,
+        TimeSpan? healthPollInterval = null) =>
         Akka.Actor.Props.Create(() => new DriverInstanceActor(
             driver,
             reconnectInterval ?? DefaultReconnectInterval,
@@ -259,7 +264,8 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
             rediscoverInterval,
             rediscoverMaxAttempts,
             rediscoverDiscoverTimeout,
-            invoker));
+            invoker,
+            healthPollInterval));
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Returns true when the driver should boot in DEV-STUB mode based on host platform and
@@ -293,6 +299,8 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     /// <param name="rediscoverDiscoverTimeout">Per-pass timeout for <see cref="ITagDiscovery.DiscoverAsync"/>; defaults to 30 seconds.</param>
     /// <param name="invoker">Phase 6.1 resilience invoker wrapping this driver's capability calls;
     /// defaults to <see cref="NullDriverCapabilityInvoker"/> (pass-through) when null.</param>
+    /// <param name="healthPollInterval">Period of the health-poll heartbeat, which also drives the
+    /// subscription reconcile; defaults to <see cref="HealthPollInterval"/> when null.</param>
     public DriverInstanceActor(
         IDriver driver,
         TimeSpan reconnectInterval,
@@ -302,7 +310,8 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         TimeSpan? rediscoverInterval = null,
         int rediscoverMaxAttempts = DefaultRediscoverMaxAttempts,
         TimeSpan? rediscoverDiscoverTimeout = null,
-        IDriverCapabilityInvoker? invoker = null)
+        IDriverCapabilityInvoker? invoker = null,
+        TimeSpan? healthPollInterval = null)
     {
         _driver = driver;
         _invoker = invoker ?? NullDriverCapabilityInvoker.Instance;
@@ -313,6 +322,7 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         _rediscoverInterval = rediscoverInterval ?? DefaultRediscoverInterval;
         _rediscoverMaxAttempts = rediscoverMaxAttempts;
         _rediscoverDiscoverTimeout = rediscoverDiscoverTimeout ?? DefaultRediscoverDiscoverTimeout;
+        _healthPollInterval = healthPollInterval ?? HealthPollInterval;
         OtOpcUaTelemetry.DriverInstanceLifecycle.Add(1,
             new KeyValuePair<string, object?>("event", startStubbed ? "spawn_stub" : "spawn"),
             new KeyValuePair<string, object?>("driver_type", driver.DriverType));
@@ -335,7 +345,7 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         // actor starts, before any state transition fires. Also start the periodic heartbeat so
         // long-lived Healthy drivers keep their snapshot fresh for newly-joined SignalR clients.
         PublishHealthSnapshot();
-        Timers.StartPeriodicTimer("health-poll", HealthPollTick.Instance, HealthPollInterval);
+        Timers.StartPeriodicTimer("health-poll", HealthPollTick.Instance, _healthPollInterval);
     }
 
     private void Stubbed()
@@ -489,7 +499,58 @@ public sealed class DriverInstanceActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         // to Self (HandleSubscribeAsync already logged the underlying cause). Swallow it so it doesn't dead-letter.
         Receive<SubscriptionFailed>(msg =>
             _log.Debug("DriverInstance {Id}: resubscribe reported failure: {Reason}", _driverInstanceId, msg.Reason));
-        Receive<HealthPollTick>(_ => PublishHealthSnapshot());
+        Receive<HealthPollTick>(_ =>
+        {
+            PublishHealthSnapshot();
+            ReconcileSubscription();
+        });
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Periodic desired-vs-actual subscription reconcile (#488), riding the existing <c>health-poll</c>
+    ///     tick. While Connected, a driver that has a desired subscription set but no live handle is
+    ///     re-subscribed.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         The desired set is otherwise only (re)applied on a <b>Connected transition</b>
+    ///         (<see cref="ResubscribeDesired"/>) or on a deploy's <see cref="SetDesiredSubscriptions"/>.
+    ///         Nothing re-asserted it for a subscription that was lost while the driver <i>stayed</i>
+    ///         Connected — a failed subscribe whose retry never came, or a handle dropped down an error
+    ///         path. That is the hole this closes.
+    ///     </para>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         <b>This is a state-machine consistency check, not a probe.</b> It can only see that this
+    ///         actor holds no handle; it cannot detect a handle that is present but dead server-side,
+    ///         because <c>ISubscriptionHandle</c> is opaque (a <c>DiagnosticId</c> string and nothing
+    ///         else). Detecting that needs a liveness member on <c>ISubscribable</c> implemented across
+    ///         all eight drivers, each with different subscription mechanics — deliberately deferred
+    ///         until a real occurrence shows the handle outliving the subscription.
+    ///     </para>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         Gated on <see cref="ISubscribable"/>: a driver that cannot subscribe at all may still have
+    ///         been handed a desired set, and re-telling <c>Subscribe</c> to it every tick would fail
+    ///         every tick, forever.
+    ///     </para>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         A redundant <c>Subscribe</c> is possible but harmless: a tick sitting in the mailbox ahead
+    ///         of an already-queued <c>Subscribe</c> observes the same "no handle" state and tells a
+    ///         second one. <see cref="HandleSubscribeAsync"/> is a <c>ReceiveAsync</c> (so no tick can be
+    ///         processed mid-subscribe) and drops any prior subscription before establishing the new one,
+    ///         so the duplicate costs one extra round-trip and converges. Suppressing it would need a
+    ///         pending-subscribe flag threaded through every self-tell site — more state than the race
+    ///         is worth.
+    ///     </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    private void ReconcileSubscription()
+    {
+        if (_driver is not ISubscribable) return;
+        if (_desiredRefs.Count == 0 || _subscriptionHandle is not null) return;
+
+        _log.Info(
+            "DriverInstance {Id}: connected with {Count} desired subscription ref(s) but no live subscription handle — re-subscribing (periodic reconcile)",
+            _driverInstanceId, _desiredRefs.Count);
+        Self.Tell(new Subscribe(_desiredRefs, _desiredInterval));
     }
 
     private void Reconnecting()

tests/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Tests/SqlCredentialGuardTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Validation;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     <see cref="SqlCredentialGuard"/> — the shared "a Sql driver never persists a literal connection
+///     string" check behind both the #498 deploy gate and the #499 node-override save gate.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     The node-override half is the one #499 is about: <c>ClusterNode.DriverConfigOverridesJson</c> is a
+///     map keyed by <c>DriverInstanceId</c> that is merged onto the cluster-level <c>DriverConfig</c>, and
+///     it is invisible to <c>DraftSnapshot</c> — so nothing gated it at all before.
+/// </remarks>
+[Trait("Category", "Unit")]
+public sealed class SqlCredentialGuardTests
+{
+    /// <summary>The literal an operator would paste into a raw-JSON textarea.</summary>
+    private const string Leaked =
+        """{"provider":"SqlServer","connectionString":"Server=sql,1433;Database=Mes;User ID=sa;Password=hunter2"}""";
+
+    private const string Clean = """{"provider":"SqlServer","connectionStringRef":"Sql:Line3"}""";
+
+    // ---- CarriesLiteralConnectionString --------------------------------------------------------
+
+    /// <summary>The key is caught at the top level of a config blob.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_literal_connectionString_is_detected()
+        => SqlCredentialGuard.CarriesLiteralConnectionString(Leaked).ShouldBeTrue();
+
+    /// <summary>The supported indirect form is not a violation — otherwise the rule would block the fix
+    /// it tells operators to apply.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void The_indirect_connectionStringRef_form_is_clean()
+        => SqlCredentialGuard.CarriesLiteralConnectionString(Clean).ShouldBeFalse();
+
+    /// <summary>System.Text.Json binds <c>ConnectionString</c> to a <c>connectionString</c> property by
+    /// default, so a case variant is the same key — not a bypass.</summary>
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("""{"ConnectionString":"Server=x;Password=p"}""")]
+    [InlineData("""{"CONNECTIONSTRING":"Server=x;Password=p"}""")]
+    [InlineData("""{"connectionstring":"Server=x;Password=p"}""")]
+    public void Case_variants_are_the_same_key(string json)
+        => SqlCredentialGuard.CarriesLiteralConnectionString(json).ShouldBeTrue();
+
+    /// <summary>Blank, malformed and non-object blobs simply have no keys. Shaping the config JSON is
+    /// another rule's job, and throwing here would turn a formatting mistake into a credential failure.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(null)]
+    [InlineData("")]
+    [InlineData("   ")]
+    [InlineData("{ not json")]
+    [InlineData("[1,2,3]")]
+    [InlineData("\"a string\"")]
+    public void Blank_malformed_and_non_object_blobs_are_not_violations(string? json)
+        => SqlCredentialGuard.CarriesLiteralConnectionString(json).ShouldBeFalse();
+
+    /// <summary>Only the top level is scanned. The DTO is flat, so a nested occurrence cannot bind and is
+    /// not the credential-shaped mistake this rule exists to catch.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_nested_occurrence_is_not_flagged()
+        => SqlCredentialGuard
+            .CarriesLiteralConnectionString("""{"nested":{"connectionString":"Server=x"}}""")
+            .ShouldBeFalse();
+
+    // ---- FindNodeOverrideViolations (#499) -----------------------------------------------------
+
+    /// <summary>The #499 leak: a credential pasted into a node's per-driver override map.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_credential_in_a_node_override_for_a_Sql_driver_is_a_violation()
+    {
+        var overrides = $$"""{"di-sql": {{Leaked}} }""";
+
+        SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations(overrides, ["di-sql"])
+            .ShouldBe(["di-sql"]);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Every offending instance is reported, not just the first — an operator fixing one at a
+    /// time would otherwise need as many save attempts as there are leaks.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void Every_offending_instance_is_reported()
+    {
+        var overrides = $$"""{"di-a": {{Leaked}}, "di-clean": {{Clean}}, "di-b": {{Leaked}} }""";
+
+        SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations(overrides, ["di-a", "di-b", "di-clean"])
+            .ShouldBe(["di-a", "di-b"]);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Keys outside the Sql set are ignored. A non-Sql driver never made the
+    /// indirect-credential guarantee, so flagging it would break a config that is legitimate today —
+    /// a regression, not defence in depth.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void An_override_for_a_non_Sql_driver_is_ignored()
+    {
+        var overrides = $$"""{"di-modbus": {{Leaked}} }""";
+
+        SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations(overrides, ["di-sql"]).ShouldBeEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>The realistic override — a node-specific endpoint — must keep saving.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_normal_override_is_clean()
+    {
+        var overrides = """{"di-sql": {"commandTimeoutSeconds": 45}}""";
+
+        SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations(overrides, ["di-sql"]).ShouldBeEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Nothing to check when the cluster has no Sql drivers, or the node has no overrides.</summary>
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(null)]
+    [InlineData("")]
+    [InlineData("   ")]
+    [InlineData("{ not json")]
+    [InlineData("[1,2,3]")]
+    public void Blank_and_malformed_override_maps_yield_no_violations(string? overrides)
+        => SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations(overrides, ["di-sql"]).ShouldBeEmpty();
+
+    /// <summary>An empty Sql-driver set short-circuits — there is no instance the key could belong to.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void No_Sql_drivers_means_no_violations()
+        => SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations($$"""{"di-sql": {{Leaked}} }""", [])
+            .ShouldBeEmpty();
+
+    /// <summary>A non-object override entry cannot carry config keys, and must not throw.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_non_object_override_entry_is_skipped()
+        => SqlCredentialGuard.FindNodeOverrideViolations("""{"di-sql": "connectionString"}""", ["di-sql"])
+            .ShouldBeEmpty();
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Galaxy.Tests/Runtime/EventPumpBoundedChannelTests.cs

@@ -10,59 +10,109 @@ using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Galaxy.Runtime;
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Galaxy.Tests.Runtime;
 
 /// <summary>
-///     PR 6.2 — pins the EventPump's bounded-channel + drop-newest behavior. We
+///     PR 6.2 — pins the EventPump's bounded-channel + drop-newest behavior. We hold the dispatch loop
-///     hold the dispatch loop with a slow handler so the channel fills, then verify
+///     with a blocking handler so the channel fills, then verify the producer keeps reading from the gw
-///     the producer keeps reading from the gw stream and increments the
+///     stream and increments the <c>galaxy.events.dropped</c> counter rather than blocking.
-///     <c>galaxy.events.dropped</c> counter rather than blocking.
 /// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     These tests observe two background loops (<c>RunAsync</c> / <c>DispatchLoopAsync</c>) through a
+///     process-wide <see cref="Meter"/>, so every wait here is a <b>presence</b> assertion polled up to
+///     <see cref="Budget"/> — never a fixed sleep. A fixed sleep is a bet that both loops get scheduled
+///     within it, and #503 is what losing that bet looks like when the box is busy running other test
+///     assemblies.
+/// </remarks>
 public sealed class EventPumpBoundedChannelTests
 {
-    /// <summary>Verifies that the event pump drops newest events when the bounded channel fills and records metrics for dropped events.</summary>
+    /// <summary>Upper bound on how long a poll waits for a background loop to reach its terminal state.
+    /// Generous on purpose: it is spent only when something is genuinely broken, and it cannot turn a
+    /// failing assertion into a passing one.</summary>
+    private static readonly TimeSpan Budget = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     With the dispatch loop genuinely held and the channel therefore full, the producer keeps
+    ///     draining the gw stream and counts every rejected write on <c>galaxy.events.dropped</c> —
+    ///     newest-dropped, not back-pressure.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         The arrangement is staged so the arithmetic is exact rather than scheduler-dependent
+    ///         (#503): emit ONE event, wait until the dispatcher has actually entered the handler (so it
+    ///         holds that event and the channel is empty), and only then emit the remaining nine. The
+    ///         channel accepts <c>capacity</c> of them and the rest must be dropped —
+    ///         <c>10 − 1 held − 2 buffered = 7</c>, every run.
+    ///     </para>
+    /// </remarks>
     [Fact]
     public async Task Drops_newest_when_channel_fills_and_records_metric()
     {
-        var counters = StartMeterCapture();
+        const int totalEvents = 10;
+        const int channelCapacity = 2;
+        // One event is held inside the handler; `channelCapacity` more fit in the channel; the rest are dropped.
+        const int expectedDropped = totalEvents - 1 - channelCapacity;
+
+        // Unique per run: the counters are filtered to this exact galaxy.client tag, which is what keeps a
+        // parallel sibling test's pump out of them (#503). A literal name would work today and break the
+        // day someone reuses it.
+        var clientName = $"PumpTest-{Guid.NewGuid():N}";
+        var counters = StartMeterCapture(clientName);
+
+        // A SYNCHRONOUS gate, deliberately. OnDataChange is EventHandler<T> — void-returning — so an
+        // `async (_, _) => await gate` lambda is async void: it returns to the dispatch loop at the first
+        // await and holds nothing. That is exactly what #503 was: the loop drained freely, drops happened
+        // only when the producer happened to outrun the consumer, and the assertions rode on scheduling
+        // luck. Blocking the loop's own thread is what makes "the dispatcher is held" true.
+        var dispatchGate = new ManualResetEventSlim(false);
+        var handlerEntered = new TaskCompletionSource(TaskCreationOptions.RunContinuationsAsynchronously);
+        EventPump? pump = null;
         try
         {
             var subscriber = new ManualSubscriber();
             var registry = new SubscriptionRegistry();
             registry.Register(1, [new TagBinding("Tag.A", ItemHandle: 7)]);
 
-            // Tiny channel + slow handler ⇒ producer hits FullMode.Wait → TryWrite false
+            pump = new EventPump(
-            // for every overflow event.
+                subscriber, registry, channelCapacity: channelCapacity, clientName: clientName);
-            var dispatchGate = new TaskCompletionSource(TaskCreationOptions.RunContinuationsAsynchronously);
+            pump.OnDataChange += (_, _) =>
-            await using var pump = new EventPump(
-                subscriber, registry, channelCapacity: 2, clientName: "PumpTest");
-            pump.OnDataChange += async (_, _) =>
             {
-                // Block the dispatch loop until we've shoved enough events through to
+                handlerEntered.TrySetResult();
-                // overflow the bounded channel. Consume the gate exactly once.
+                dispatchGate.Wait();
-                await dispatchGate.Task.ConfigureAwait(false);
             };
             pump.Start();
 
-            const int totalEvents = 10;
+            // Stage 1 — one event, then wait for the dispatcher to take it and block. After this the
-            for (var i = 0; i < totalEvents; i++)
+            // channel is provably empty and exactly one event is in flight inside the handler.
+            await subscriber.EmitAsync(itemHandle: 7, value: 0);
+            await handlerEntered.Task.WaitAsync(Budget);
+
+            // Stage 2 — the rest. `channelCapacity` are accepted; the remainder must be dropped.
+            for (var i = 1; i < totalEvents; i++)
             {
                 await subscriber.EmitAsync(itemHandle: 7, value: i);
             }
-            // Give the producer a beat to run TryWrite for every event.
-            await Task.Delay(150);
 
-            // Capacity 2 + 1 in-flight in the dispatcher = 3 may have been accepted; the
+            // PRESENCE assertion on the discriminator (#500's rule): poll until the drop count reaches its
-            // remainder should have hit the dropped counter. Don't pin exact counts —
+            // terminal value rather than sleeping a fixed 150 ms and hoping the producer got scheduled.
-            // the scheduler can interleave; pin the invariants instead.
+            // The budget is an upper bound before giving up — spending it costs nothing on the happy path,
-            counters.Received.ShouldBeGreaterThanOrEqualTo(totalEvents);
+            // and no amount of it can make a genuinely broken pump pass. Dropped starts at 0, so this
-            counters.Dropped.ShouldBeGreaterThan(0,
+            // cannot be satisfied by the initial state.
-                "with capacity=2 and a held dispatcher we must drop at least one of 10 events");
+            await WaitUntilAsync(() => counters.Dropped == expectedDropped,
-            (counters.Received).ShouldBe(counters.Dispatched + counters.Dropped + counters.InFlight,
+                $"expected {expectedDropped} dropped events");
-                "received = dispatched + dropped + (events still queued)");
 
-            // Release the dispatcher so DisposeAsync can drain cleanly.
+            counters.Received.ShouldBe(totalEvents,
-            dispatchGate.TrySetResult();
+                "the producer must keep reading the gw stream through the overflow, not back-pressure");
+            counters.Dropped.ShouldBe(expectedDropped);
+            counters.Dispatched.ShouldBe(0,
+                "the dispatch loop is still blocked in the handler, so nothing has completed dispatch — " +
+                "if this is non-zero the handler is not actually holding the loop and the test proves nothing");
         }
         finally
         {
+            // Release BEFORE disposing: DisposeAsync awaits the dispatch loop, and that loop is parked on
+            // this gate. Releasing it here (not at the end of the try) is what keeps a failed assertion a
+            // failure instead of a hang.
+            dispatchGate.Set();
+            if (pump is not null) await pump.DisposeAsync();
+            dispatchGate.Dispose();
             counters.Dispose();
         }
     }
@@ -110,23 +160,21 @@ public sealed class EventPumpBoundedChannelTests
             // Poll until at least one galaxy.events.received measurement tagged
             // galaxy.client=Driver-X lands in the listener, rather than using a
             // fixed delay that races under parallel test load on a busy box.
-            var deadline = DateTime.UtcNow.AddSeconds(5);
+            // Budget, not 5 s: the same contention that produced #503 stretches how long the
-            bool found = false;
+            // producer loop takes to be scheduled, and a presence poll costs nothing to over-budget.
-            while (DateTime.UtcNow < deadline)
+            await WaitUntilAsync(
+                () =>
                 {
                     listener.RecordObservableInstruments();
-                bool hasMatch;
                     lock (captured)
                     {
-                    hasMatch = captured.Any(c =>
+                        return captured.Any(c =>
                             c.Instrument == "galaxy.events.received" &&
                             c.Tags.Any(t => t.Key == "galaxy.client" &&
                                 string.Equals((string?)t.Value, "Driver-X", StringComparison.Ordinal)));
                     }
-                if (hasMatch) { found = true; break; }
+                },
-                await Task.Delay(25);
+                "a galaxy.events.received measurement tagged galaxy.client=Driver-X");
-            }
-            _ = found; // assertion happens below after dispose
         }
 
         // The static Meter is shared across all EventPump instances in the test
@@ -146,7 +194,46 @@ public sealed class EventPumpBoundedChannelTests
         ours.ShouldContain(c => c.Instrument == "galaxy.events.received");
     }
 
-    private static CounterCapture StartMeterCapture()
+    /// <summary>Polls <paramref name="condition"/> until it holds or <see cref="Budget"/> elapses, failing
+    /// with <paramref name="what"/> on timeout. The presence-assertion counterpart to a fixed delay.</summary>
+    private static async Task WaitUntilAsync(Func<bool> condition, string what)
+    {
+        var deadline = DateTime.UtcNow + Budget;
+        while (DateTime.UtcNow < deadline)
+        {
+            if (condition()) return;
+            await Task.Delay(10);
+        }
+        condition().ShouldBeTrue($"timed out after {Budget.TotalSeconds:0}s waiting: {what}");
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Captures the three EventPump counters for <b>one specific pump</b>, identified by its
+    ///     <c>galaxy.client</c> tag.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         The <c>galaxy.client</c> filter is the fix for #503, and it is not optional. The pump's
+    ///         <see cref="Meter"/> is <b>static</b> — one instance for the whole process — and
+    ///         <c>InstrumentPublished</c> can only select by <i>meter</i>, so an unfiltered listener
+    ///         receives measurements from every <see cref="EventPump"/> alive anywhere in the assembly.
+    ///         xUnit runs test classes in parallel and several of them build pumps
+    ///         (<c>EventPumpStreamFaultTests</c>, the <c>Driver-X</c> test below), so a sibling's events
+    ///         landed in these counters — that is why the flake needed a busy box: it needed the two
+    ///         tests to overlap in time. The leak was measured directly, as <c>Received = 11</c> in a run
+    ///         that emitted 10.
+    ///     </para>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         The old <c>Received == Dispatched + Dropped + InFlight</c> assertion is what turned the
+    ///         leak into a failure: a foreign increment landing between its four separate
+    ///         <see cref="Interlocked.Read(ref long)"/> calls made the two sides disagree. Hence the
+    ///         reported subject, <c>counters.Received</c>.
+    ///     </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="clientName">The <c>galaxy.client</c> tag value to accept. Must be unique to the
+    /// calling test — pass a fresh GUID-suffixed name rather than a literal, so a future sibling test
+    /// cannot silently reintroduce the leak by reusing the same name.</param>
+    private static CounterCapture StartMeterCapture(string clientName)
     {
         var capture = new CounterCapture();
         var listener = new MeterListener();
@@ -154,8 +241,20 @@ public sealed class EventPumpBoundedChannelTests
         {
             if (instr.Meter.Name == EventPump.MeterName) l.EnableMeasurementEvents(instr);
         };
-        listener.SetMeasurementEventCallback<long>((instr, value, _, _) =>
+        listener.SetMeasurementEventCallback<long>((instr, value, tags, _) =>
         {
+            var mine = false;
+            foreach (var tag in tags)
+            {
+                if (tag.Key == "galaxy.client" &&
+                    string.Equals((string?)tag.Value, clientName, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+                {
+                    mine = true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (!mine) return;
+
             switch (instr.Name)
             {
                 case "galaxy.events.received": Interlocked.Add(ref capture._received, value); break;
@@ -178,8 +277,11 @@ public sealed class EventPumpBoundedChannelTests
         public long Dispatched => Interlocked.Read(ref _dispatched);
         /// <summary>Gets the count of dropped events.</summary>
         public long Dropped => Interlocked.Read(ref _dropped);
-        /// <summary>Gets the count of in-flight events.</summary>
+        // There is deliberately no InFlight member. It could only be DERIVED as
-        public long InFlight => Math.Max(0, Received - Dispatched - Dropped);
+        // Received - Dispatched - Dropped, which made the old
+        // `Received == Dispatched + Dropped + InFlight` assertion a tautology: it could not fail on a
+        // real defect, only on a torn read across the four separate Interlocked.Read calls. Assert the
+        // three measured counters directly instead (#503).
         /// <summary>Disposes the meter listener.</summary>
         public void Dispose() => Listener?.Dispose();
     }

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests/Docker/Dockerfile

@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ COPY profiles/ /fixtures/
 # compose profile. See Docker/README.md §exception injection.
 COPY exception_injector.py /fixtures/
 
-EXPOSE 5020
+# 5020 = the shared port for the standard/dl205/mitsubishi/s7_1500/exception_injection
+# profiles (only one binds it at a time); 5021 = the rtu_over_tcp profile, which co-runs
+# with standard. Image-metadata honesty only — compose's ports: mapping doesn't need EXPOSE.
+EXPOSE 5020 5021
 
 # Default to the standard profile; docker-compose.yml overrides per service.
 # --http_port intentionally omitted; pymodbus 3.13's web UI binds on a

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests/Docker/README.md

@@ -2,15 +2,16 @@
 
 The Modbus driver's integration tests talk to a
 [`pymodbus`](https://pymodbus.readthedocs.io/) simulator running as a
-pinned Docker container. One image, per-profile service in compose, same
+pinned Docker container. One image, per-profile service in compose. Most
-port binding (`5020`) regardless of which profile is live. Docker is the
+profiles bind `:5020`, so only one of *those* runs at a time; the
-only supported launch path — a fresh clone needs Docker Desktop and
+`rtu_over_tcp` profile binds `:5021` and is designed to co-run alongside
-nothing else.
+`standard`. Docker is the only supported launch path — a fresh clone needs
+Docker Desktop and nothing else.
 
 | File | Purpose |
 |---|---|
 | [`Dockerfile`](Dockerfile) | `python:3.12-slim-bookworm` + `pymodbus[simulator]==3.13.0` + every profile JSON + `exception_injector.py` |
-| [`docker-compose.yml`](docker-compose.yml) | One service per profile (`standard` / `dl205` / `mitsubishi` / `s7_1500` / `exception_injection`); all bind `:5020` so only one runs at a time |
+| [`docker-compose.yml`](docker-compose.yml) | One service per profile (`standard` / `dl205` / `mitsubishi` / `s7_1500` / `exception_injection` bind `:5020`, so only one of those runs at a time; `rtu_over_tcp` binds `:5021` and can run alongside `standard`) |
 | [`profiles/*.json`](profiles/) | Same seed-register definitions the native launcher uses — canonical source |
 | [`exception_injector.py`](exception_injector.py) | Pure-stdlib Modbus/TCP server that emits arbitrary exception codes per rule — used by the `exception_injection` profile |
 
@@ -43,10 +44,11 @@ docker compose -f tests\...\Docker\docker-compose.yml --profile dl205 up -d
 docker compose -f tests\...\Docker\docker-compose.yml --profile dl205 down
 ```
 
-Only one profile binds `:5020` at a time; switch by stopping the current
+Only one of the `:5020` profiles binds at a time; switch by stopping the
-service + starting another. The integration tests discriminate by a
+current service + starting another. (`rtu_over_tcp` is the exception — it
-separate `MODBUS_SIM_PROFILE` env var so they skip correctly when the
+binds `:5021` and co-runs with `standard`.) The integration tests
-wrong profile is live.
+discriminate by a separate `MODBUS_SIM_PROFILE` env var so they skip
+correctly when the wrong profile is live.
 
 > **⚠️ Profile-cycling gotcha (bit us in the 2026-07 sweep — see
 > `archreview/plans/INTEGRATION-SWEEP-STATUS.md`).** Each profile is a

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests/Docker/docker-compose.yml

@@ -78,6 +78,30 @@ services:
       "--json_file",      "/fixtures/s7_1500.json"
     ]
 
+  # RTU-over-TCP profile. Same pymodbus simulator, but the server is framed
+  # RTU (framer=rtu) instead of socket/MBAP — this is what a serial→Ethernet
+  # gateway presents. Binds :5021 (NOT the shared :5020) so it co-runs with
+  # the `standard` profile: two families, two ports, no conflict. Serves
+  # rtu_over_tcp.json (byte-for-byte standard.json + framer/port swap).
+  rtu_over_tcp:
+    profiles: ["rtu_over_tcp"]
+    image: otopcua-pymodbus:3.13.0
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    container_name: otopcua-pymodbus-rtu_over_tcp
+    labels:
+      project: lmxopcua
+    restart: "no"
+    ports:
+      - "5021:5021"
+    command: [
+      "pymodbus.simulator",
+      "--modbus_server", "srv",
+      "--modbus_device",  "dev",
+      "--json_file",      "/fixtures/rtu_over_tcp.json"
+    ]
+
   # Exception-injection profile. Runs the standalone pure-stdlib Modbus/TCP
   # server shipped as exception_injector.py instead of the pymodbus
   # simulator — pymodbus naturally emits only exception codes 02 + 03, and

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests/Docker/profiles/rtu_over_tcp.json

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+{
+  "_comment": "rtu_over_tcp.json — RTU-over-TCP Modbus server for the integration suite (RTU framing tunnelled over a socket, as a serial→Ethernet gateway presents it). Byte-for-byte standard.json EXCEPT the server block: framer=\"rtu\" (not \"socket\") + port 5021 (not 5020), so it co-runs with the standard profile on :5020. pymodbus 3.13's simulator honors framer=rtu on a TCP server — confirmed on the wire (controller spike, 2026-07-24): raw RTU FC03 read of HR[5] returned `01 03 02 00 05 78 47`, a pure RTU frame with no MBAP header. Layout is identical to standard.json: HR[0..31]=address-as-value, HR[100]=auto-increment, HR[200..209]=scratch, coils 1024..1055=alternating, coils 1100..1109=scratch. NOTE: pymodbus rejects unknown keys at device-list / setup level; explanatory comments live in the README + git history.",
+
+  "server_list": {
+    "srv": {
+      "comm": "tcp",
+      "host": "0.0.0.0",
+      "port": 5021,
+      "framer": "rtu",
+      "device_id": 1
+    }
+  },
+
+  "device_list": {
+    "dev": {
+      "setup": {
+        "co size": 2048,
+        "di size": 2048,
+        "hr size": 2048,
+        "ir size": 2048,
+        "shared blocks": true,
+        "type exception": false,
+        "defaults": {
+          "value":  {"bits": 0, "uint16": 0, "uint32": 0, "float32": 0.0, "string": " "},
+          "action": {"bits": null, "uint16": null, "uint32": null, "float32": null, "string": null}
+        }
+      },
+      "invalid": [],
+      "write": [
+        [0, 31],
+        [100, 100],
+        [200, 209],
+        [1024, 1055],
+        [1100, 1109]
+      ],
+
+      "uint16": [
+        {"addr":  0, "value":  0}, {"addr":  1, "value":  1},
+        {"addr":  2, "value":  2}, {"addr":  3, "value":  3},
+        {"addr":  4, "value":  4}, {"addr":  5, "value":  5},
+        {"addr":  6, "value":  6}, {"addr":  7, "value":  7},
+        {"addr":  8, "value":  8}, {"addr":  9, "value":  9},
+        {"addr": 10, "value": 10}, {"addr": 11, "value": 11},
+        {"addr": 12, "value": 12}, {"addr": 13, "value": 13},
+        {"addr": 14, "value": 14}, {"addr": 15, "value": 15},
+        {"addr": 16, "value": 16}, {"addr": 17, "value": 17},
+        {"addr": 18, "value": 18}, {"addr": 19, "value": 19},
+        {"addr": 20, "value": 20}, {"addr": 21, "value": 21},
+        {"addr": 22, "value": 22}, {"addr": 23, "value": 23},
+        {"addr": 24, "value": 24}, {"addr": 25, "value": 25},
+        {"addr": 26, "value": 26}, {"addr": 27, "value": 27},
+        {"addr": 28, "value": 28}, {"addr": 29, "value": 29},
+        {"addr": 30, "value": 30}, {"addr": 31, "value": 31},
+
+        {"addr": 100, "value": 0,
+         "action": "increment",
+         "parameters": {"minval": 0, "maxval": 65535}},
+
+        {"addr": 200, "value": 0}, {"addr": 201, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 202, "value": 0}, {"addr": 203, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 204, "value": 0}, {"addr": 205, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 206, "value": 0}, {"addr": 207, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 208, "value": 0}, {"addr": 209, "value": 0}
+      ],
+
+      "bits": [
+        {"addr": 1024, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1025, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1026, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1027, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1028, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1029, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1030, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1031, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1032, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1033, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1034, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1035, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1036, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1037, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1038, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1039, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1040, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1041, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1042, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1043, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1044, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1045, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1046, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1047, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1048, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1049, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1050, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1051, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1052, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1053, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1054, "value": 1}, {"addr": 1055, "value": 0},
+
+        {"addr": 1100, "value": 0}, {"addr": 1101, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1102, "value": 0}, {"addr": 1103, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1104, "value": 0}, {"addr": 1105, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1106, "value": 0}, {"addr": 1107, "value": 0},
+        {"addr": 1108, "value": 0}, {"addr": 1109, "value": 0}
+      ],
+
+      "uint32":  [],
+      "float32": [],
+      "string":  [],
+      "repeat":  []
+    }
+  }
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests/ModbusRtuOverTcpFixture.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+using System.Net.Sockets;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Reachability probe for the RTU-over-TCP Modbus simulator (pymodbus in Docker with
+///     <c>framer=rtu</c>, see <c>Docker/docker-compose.yml</c> profile <c>rtu_over_tcp</c>) or a
+///     real serial→Ethernet Modbus gateway. Mirrors <see cref="ModbusSimulatorFixture"/> but reads
+///     <c>MODBUS_RTU_SIM_ENDPOINT</c> (default <c>10.100.0.35:5021</c> — the shared Docker host, a
+///     distinct port from the standard profile's <c>:5020</c> so the two fixtures co-run). TCP-connects
+///     once at fixture construction; each test checks <see cref="SkipReason"/> and calls
+///     <c>Assert.Skip</c> when the endpoint was unreachable, so a dev box without a running simulator
+///     still passes `dotnet test` cleanly.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     Same one-shot-probe discipline as <see cref="ModbusSimulatorFixture"/>: the probe socket is
+///     not held for the life of the fixture (tests open their own <see cref="ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport"/>
+///     against the same endpoint), and the fixture is a collection fixture so the probe runs once per
+///     session rather than per test.
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed class ModbusRtuOverTcpFixture : IAsyncDisposable
+{
+    // :5021 (not the standard profile's :5020) so the rtu_over_tcp container can co-run with the
+    // standard container on the shared Docker host. 10.100.0.35 = the shared Docker host (see
+    // CLAUDE.md "Docker Workflow"). Override with MODBUS_RTU_SIM_ENDPOINT to point at a real
+    // serial→Ethernet Modbus gateway, or a locally-running container.
+    private const string DefaultEndpoint = "10.100.0.35:5021";
+    private const string EndpointEnvVar = "MODBUS_RTU_SIM_ENDPOINT";
+
+    /// <summary>Gets the host address of the RTU-over-TCP Modbus simulator.</summary>
+    public string Host { get; }
+
+    /// <summary>Gets the port of the RTU-over-TCP Modbus simulator.</summary>
+    public int Port { get; }
+
+    /// <summary>Gets the skip reason if the simulator is unreachable; otherwise null.</summary>
+    public string? SkipReason { get; }
+
+    /// <summary>Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ModbusRtuOverTcpFixture"/> class.</summary>
+    public ModbusRtuOverTcpFixture()
+    {
+        var raw = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(EndpointEnvVar) ?? DefaultEndpoint;
+        var parts = raw.Split(':', 2);
+        Host = parts[0];
+        Port = parts.Length == 2 && int.TryParse(parts[1], out var p) ? p : 502;
+
+        try
+        {
+            // Force IPv4 on the probe — pymodbus binds 0.0.0.0 (IPv4 only) while .NET default-resolves
+            // "localhost" → IPv6 ::1 first and only then tries IPv4, surfacing as a 2s timeout under
+            // .NET 10. Resolving + dialing explicit IPv4 sidesteps the dual-stack ordering. (Same
+            // rationale as ModbusSimulatorFixture.)
+            using var client = new TcpClient(System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork);
+            var task = client.ConnectAsync(
+                System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses(Host)
+                    .FirstOrDefault(a => a.AddressFamily == System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
+                    ?? System.Net.IPAddress.Loopback,
+                Port);
+            if (!task.Wait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2)) || !client.Connected)
+            {
+                SkipReason = $"RTU-over-TCP Modbus simulator at {Host}:{Port} did not accept a TCP connection within 2s. " +
+                             $"Start the pymodbus Docker container (docker compose -f Docker/docker-compose.yml --profile rtu_over_tcp up -d --build) " +
+                             $"or override {EndpointEnvVar}, then re-run.";
+            }
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex)
+        {
+            SkipReason = $"RTU-over-TCP Modbus simulator at {Host}:{Port} unreachable: {ex.GetType().Name}: {ex.Message}. " +
+                         $"Start the pymodbus Docker container (docker compose -f Docker/docker-compose.yml --profile rtu_over_tcp up -d --build) " +
+                         $"or override {EndpointEnvVar}, then re-run.";
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public ValueTask DisposeAsync() => ValueTask.CompletedTask;
+}
+
+[Xunit.CollectionDefinition(Name)]
+public sealed class ModbusRtuOverTcpCollection : Xunit.ICollectionFixture<ModbusRtuOverTcpFixture>
+{
+    public const string Name = "ModbusRtuOverTcp";
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests/ModbusRtuOverTcpTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     End-to-end round-trip against the <c>rtu_over_tcp.json</c> pymodbus profile (or a real
+///     serial→Ethernet Modbus gateway when <c>MODBUS_RTU_SIM_ENDPOINT</c> points at one), driving the
+///     full <see cref="ModbusDriver"/> + real <see cref="ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport"/> stack with
+///     <see cref="ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp"/>. Proves the driver reads a seeded holding register
+///     and writes+reads-back a scratch register when the wire carries RTU framing
+///     (<c>[addr][PDU][CRC-16]</c>, no MBAP header) rather than Modbus/TCP.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     pymodbus 3.13's simulator honors <c>framer=rtu</c> on a TCP server — confirmed on the wire
+///     (controller spike, 2026-07-24): a raw RTU FC03 read of HR[5] returned
+///     <c>01 03 02 00 05 78 47</c>, a pure RTU frame with no MBAP header (data 0x0005 = 5). So the
+///     fixture is the plain pymodbus simulator with framer/port swapped — no stdlib fallback server.
+/// </remarks>
+[Collection(ModbusRtuOverTcpCollection.Name)]
+[Trait("Category", "Integration")]
+[Trait("Device", "RtuOverTcp")]
+public sealed class ModbusRtuOverTcpTests(ModbusRtuOverTcpFixture sim)
+{
+    /// <summary>Reads a seeded holding register (HR[5]=5) over RTU-over-TCP framing.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Reads_a_seeded_holding_register_over_rtu_framing()
+    {
+        if (sim.SkipReason is not null) Assert.Skip(sim.SkipReason);
+        var opts = new ModbusDriverOptions
+        {
+            Host = sim.Host,
+            Port = sim.Port,
+            UnitId = 1,
+            Transport = ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp,
+            Timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
+            Probe = new ModbusProbeOptions { Enabled = false },
+            RawTags = ModbusRawTags.Entries([
+                new ModbusTagDefinition(
+                    Name: "HR5",
+                    Region: ModbusRegion.HoldingRegisters,
+                    Address: 5,
+                    DataType: ModbusDataType.UInt16,
+                    Writable: false),
+            ]),
+        };
+        await using var driver = new ModbusDriver(opts, driverInstanceId: "modbus-rtu-int");
+        await driver.InitializeAsync(driverConfigJson: "{}", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+        var results = await driver.ReadAsync(["HR5"], TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+        results.Count.ShouldBe(1);
+        results[0].StatusCode.ShouldBe(0u);       // Good
+        results[0].Value.ShouldBe((ushort)5);     // HR[5] seeded = address-as-value
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Writes then reads back a scratch holding register (HR[200]) over RTU-over-TCP framing.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Writes_and_reads_back_a_holding_register_over_rtu_framing()
+    {
+        if (sim.SkipReason is not null) Assert.Skip(sim.SkipReason);
+        var opts = new ModbusDriverOptions
+        {
+            Host = sim.Host,
+            Port = sim.Port,
+            UnitId = 1,
+            Transport = ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp,
+            Timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
+            Probe = new ModbusProbeOptions { Enabled = false },
+            RawTags = ModbusRawTags.Entries([
+                new ModbusTagDefinition(
+                    Name: "HR200",
+                    Region: ModbusRegion.HoldingRegisters,
+                    Address: 200,
+                    DataType: ModbusDataType.UInt16,
+                    Writable: true),
+            ]),
+        };
+        await using var driver = new ModbusDriver(opts, driverInstanceId: "modbus-rtu-int-w");
+        await driver.InitializeAsync(driverConfigJson: "{}", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+        var writes = await driver.WriteAsync(
+            [new WriteRequest("HR200", (ushort)4242)],
+            TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+        writes.Count.ShouldBe(1);
+        writes[0].StatusCode.ShouldBe(0u);
+
+        var back = await driver.ReadAsync(["HR200"], TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+        back.Count.ShouldBe(1);
+        back[0].StatusCode.ShouldBe(0u);
+        back[0].Value.ShouldBe((ushort)4242);
+    }
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusCrcTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+public sealed class ModbusCrcTests
+{
+    // Known CRC-16/MODBUS vectors (init 0xFFFF, poly 0xA001). CRC returned as ushort;
+    // on the wire it is appended low-byte-first.
+    [Theory]
+    // FC03 read HR: unit 1, addr 0, qty 1  -> CRC 0x0A84  (bytes 84 0A on the wire)
+    [InlineData(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 }, (ushort)0x0A84)]
+    // "123456789" canonical check value for CRC-16/MODBUS = 0x4B37
+    [InlineData(new byte[] { 0x31,0x32,0x33,0x34,0x35,0x36,0x37,0x38,0x39 }, (ushort)0x4B37)]
+    public void Compute_matches_known_vectors(byte[] frame, ushort expected)
+        => ModbusCrc.Compute(frame).ShouldBe(expected);
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void AppendLowByteFirst_writes_lo_then_hi()
+    {
+        var body = new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 };
+        var withCrc = ModbusCrc.Append(body);
+        withCrc.Length.ShouldBe(body.Length + 2);
+        withCrc[^2].ShouldBe((byte)0x84); // CRC low byte
+        withCrc[^1].ShouldBe((byte)0x0A); // CRC high byte
+    }
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusEdgeCaseValidationTests.cs

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
 ///     (2) Sub-second <see cref="TimeSpan"/> values on <c>ModbusKeepAliveOptions.Time</c> /
 ///     <c>Interval</c> — the int-cast in <c>EnableKeepAlive</c> truncated <c>500&#160;ms</c> to
 ///     <c>0</c>, which most OSes interpret as "use the default", silently defeating the
-///     configured timing. <c>ModbusTcpTransport.ClampToWholeSeconds</c> rounds up to a minimum
+///     configured timing. <c>ModbusSocketLifecycle.ClampToWholeSeconds</c> rounds up to a minimum
 ///     of 1&#160;second.
 /// </summary>
 [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public sealed class ModbusEdgeCaseValidationTests
     [InlineData(60_000, 60)]
     public void ClampToWholeSeconds_rounds_up_to_at_least_one_second(int ms, int expected)
     {
-        ModbusTcpTransport.ClampToWholeSeconds(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(ms)).ShouldBe(expected);
+        ModbusSocketLifecycle.ClampToWholeSeconds(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(ms)).ShouldBe(expected);
     }
 
     /// <summary>Verifies that negative time spans are treated as one second.</summary>
@@ -80,6 +80,6 @@ public sealed class ModbusEdgeCaseValidationTests
         // Defensive — operators occasionally configure a negative TimeSpan thinking it disables
         // the feature. The OS would reject the negative int — clamping to 1 keeps the socket
         // valid until the operator fixes the config.
-        ModbusTcpTransport.ClampToWholeSeconds(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(-5)).ShouldBe(1);
+        ModbusSocketLifecycle.ClampToWholeSeconds(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(-5)).ShouldBe(1);
     }
 }

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusRtuFramingTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+public sealed class ModbusRtuFramingTests
+{
+    private static MemoryStream Canned(params byte[] frame) => new(frame);
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void BuildAdu_prefixes_unit_and_appends_crc()
+    {
+        var adu = ModbusRtuFraming.BuildAdu(0x01, new byte[] { 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 });
+        adu.ShouldBe(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x84, 0x0A });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReadResponse_FC03_returns_bare_pdu()
+    {
+        // addr=01 fc=03 byteCount=02 data=00 0A  + CRC(lo,hi)
+        var body = new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A };
+        var frame = ModbusCrc.Append(body);
+        await using var s = Canned(frame);
+        var pdu = await ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(s, 0x01, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+        pdu.ShouldBe(new byte[] { 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A }); // fc + byteCount + data, no addr/CRC
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReadResponse_exception_frame_throws_ModbusException()
+    {
+        // addr=01 fc=0x83 exc=0x02 + CRC
+        var frame = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x83, 0x02 });
+        await using var s = Canned(frame);
+        var ex = await Should.ThrowAsync<ModbusException>(
+            ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(s, 0x01, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+        ex.FunctionCode.ShouldBe((byte)0x03);
+        ex.ExceptionCode.ShouldBe((byte)0x02);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReadResponse_bad_crc_throws_desync()
+    {
+        var frame = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A });
+        frame[^1] ^= 0xFF; // corrupt CRC high byte
+        await using var s = Canned(frame);
+        var ex = await Should.ThrowAsync<ModbusTransportDesyncException>(
+            ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(s, 0x01, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+        ex.Reason.ShouldBe(ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.CrcMismatch);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReadResponse_FC06_write_echo_returns_four_byte_pdu()
+    {
+        // addr=01 fc=06 addr=00 07 value=00 2A + CRC  -> PDU = 06 00 07 00 2A
+        var frame = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x06, 0x00, 0x07, 0x00, 0x2A });
+        await using var s = Canned(frame);
+        var pdu = await ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(s, 0x01, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+        pdu.ShouldBe(new byte[] { 0x06, 0x00, 0x07, 0x00, 0x2A });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReadResponse_wrong_unit_address_throws_desync()
+    {
+        // CRC-valid FC03 frame addressed to unit 0x02, but we asked for 0x01 -> unit-mismatch desync.
+        var frame = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x02, 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A });
+        await using var s = Canned(frame);
+        var ex = await Should.ThrowAsync<ModbusTransportDesyncException>(
+            ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(s, 0x01, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+        ex.Reason.ShouldBe(ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.UnitMismatch);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReadResponse_FC03_deframes_correctly_when_delivered_in_dribbles()
+    {
+        // Same valid FC03 frame, but the stream hands back only 1-2 bytes per ReadAsync — proves
+        // the ReadExactlyAsync accumulation loop reassembles a length-less frame across many reads.
+        var frame = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A });
+        await using var s = new DribbleStream(frame, chunk: 2);
+        var pdu = await ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(s, 0x01, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+        pdu.ShouldBe(new byte[] { 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReadResponse_stream_ends_early_throws_desync()
+    {
+        // Only the first 4 bytes of a 7-byte FC03 frame are available, then EOF (ReadAsync returns 0)
+        // -> the truncation path in ReadExactlyAsync must surface a desync, not hang or mis-parse.
+        var frame = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A });
+        var truncated = frame[..4];
+        await using var s = new DribbleStream(truncated, chunk: 2);
+        var ex = await Should.ThrowAsync<ModbusTransportDesyncException>(
+            ModbusRtuFraming.ReadResponsePduAsync(s, 0x01, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+        ex.Reason.ShouldBe(ModbusTransportDesyncException.DesyncReason.TruncatedFrame);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     A read-only test double that dribbles its backing bytes out at most <c>chunk</c> at a time
+    ///     per <see cref="ReadAsync(Memory{byte}, CancellationToken)"/> call, then returns 0 (EOF)
+    ///     once exhausted. Exercises the partial-read accumulation loop and the truncation → desync
+    ///     path that a single-shot <see cref="MemoryStream"/> never reaches.
+    /// </summary>
+    private sealed class DribbleStream(byte[] data, int chunk) : Stream
+    {
+        private int _pos;
+
+        public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
+        {
+            var n = Math.Min(Math.Min(chunk, count), data.Length - _pos);
+            if (n <= 0) return 0;
+            Array.Copy(data, _pos, buffer, offset, n);
+            _pos += n;
+            return n;
+        }
+
+        public override ValueTask<int> ReadAsync(Memory<byte> buffer, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+        {
+            var n = Math.Min(Math.Min(chunk, buffer.Length), data.Length - _pos);
+            if (n <= 0) return ValueTask.FromResult(0);
+            data.AsSpan(_pos, n).CopyTo(buffer.Span);
+            _pos += n;
+            return ValueTask.FromResult(n);
+        }
+
+        public override bool CanRead => true;
+        public override bool CanSeek => false;
+        public override bool CanWrite => false;
+        public override long Length => data.Length;
+        public override long Position { get => _pos; set => throw new NotSupportedException(); }
+        public override void Flush() { }
+        public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin) => throw new NotSupportedException();
+        public override void SetLength(long value) => throw new NotSupportedException();
+        public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count) => throw new NotSupportedException();
+    }
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusRtuOverTcpTransportTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Exercises <see cref="ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport"/>'s send/receive orchestration, single-flight,
+///     and per-op deadline against an in-memory duplex fake injected through the <c>ForTest</c> seam —
+///     no real socket. The fake records the request ADU the transport writes and replays a canned RTU
+///     response on read, or blocks forever (honouring cancellation) when <c>stall</c> is set.
+/// </summary>
+[Trait("Category", "Unit")]
+public sealed class ModbusRtuOverTcpTransportTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task SendAsync_writes_rtu_adu_and_returns_deframed_pdu()
+    {
+        // Response the fake gateway will emit: FC03, 1 reg = 0x000A.
+        var response = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A });
+        var fake = new CapturingDuplexStream(response);
+
+        await using var transport = ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport.ForTest(fake, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));
+        var pdu = await transport.SendAsync(0x01, new byte[] { 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 },
+            TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+        pdu.ShouldBe(new byte[] { 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, 0x0A });
+        // The request went out as an RTU ADU: unit + pdu + CRC, NO MBAP header.
+        fake.Written.ShouldBe(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x84, 0x0A });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task SendAsync_exception_pdu_surfaces_ModbusException()
+    {
+        var response = ModbusCrc.Append(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x83, 0x02 });
+        var fake = new CapturingDuplexStream(response);
+        await using var transport = ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport.ForTest(fake, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));
+        await Should.ThrowAsync<ModbusException>(
+            transport.SendAsync(0x01, new byte[] { 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 },
+                TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task SendAsync_stalled_gateway_hits_per_op_deadline()
+    {
+        var fake = new CapturingDuplexStream(respondBytes: Array.Empty<byte>(), stall: true);
+        await using var transport = ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport.ForTest(fake, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(200));
+        await Should.ThrowAsync<ModbusTransportDesyncException>(
+            transport.SendAsync(0x01, new byte[] { 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01 },
+                TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     In-memory duplex <see cref="Stream"/> test double: records everything written and replays
+    ///     <c>respondBytes</c> on read. When <c>stall</c> is set the read blocks until its cancellation
+    ///     token fires (simulating a frozen gateway) so the transport's per-op deadline is exercised.
+    /// </summary>
+    private sealed class CapturingDuplexStream : Stream
+    {
+        private readonly byte[] _response;
+        private readonly bool _stall;
+        private readonly MemoryStream _written = new();
+        private int _readPos;
+
+        public CapturingDuplexStream(byte[] respondBytes, bool stall = false)
+        {
+            _response = respondBytes;
+            _stall = stall;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Gets the bytes the transport wrote to this stream (the request ADU).</summary>
+        public byte[] Written => _written.ToArray();
+
+        public override bool CanRead => true;
+        public override bool CanSeek => false;
+        public override bool CanWrite => true;
+        public override long Length => throw new NotSupportedException();
+        public override long Position { get => throw new NotSupportedException(); set => throw new NotSupportedException(); }
+
+        public override async ValueTask<int> ReadAsync(Memory<byte> buffer, CancellationToken ct = default)
+        {
+            if (_stall)
+            {
+                // Frozen gateway: never answer. Block until the per-op deadline (or caller) cancels.
+                var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource();
+                await using (ct.Register(() => tcs.TrySetCanceled(ct)))
+                    await tcs.Task.ConfigureAwait(false);
+                return 0; // unreachable — the await above always throws when cancelled
+            }
+
+            var remaining = _response.Length - _readPos;
+            if (remaining <= 0) return 0;
+            var n = Math.Min(remaining, buffer.Length);
+            _response.AsSpan(_readPos, n).CopyTo(buffer.Span);
+            _readPos += n;
+            return n;
+        }
+
+        public override async ValueTask WriteAsync(ReadOnlyMemory<byte> buffer, CancellationToken ct = default)
+        {
+            await _written.WriteAsync(buffer, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        }
+
+        public override Task FlushAsync(CancellationToken ct) => Task.CompletedTask;
+        public override void Flush() { }
+        public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count) => throw new NotSupportedException();
+        public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count) => throw new NotSupportedException();
+        public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin) => throw new NotSupportedException();
+        public override void SetLength(long value) => throw new NotSupportedException();
+    }
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusSocketLifecycleTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Pins the socket-lifecycle surface extracted from <see cref="ModbusTcpTransport"/> into the
+///     reusable <see cref="ModbusSocketLifecycle"/> (Task 3). The clamp helper moved with it, and a
+///     connect to a dead port must still surface the underlying socket failure.
+/// </summary>
+[Trait("Category", "Unit")]
+public sealed class ModbusSocketLifecycleTests
+{
+    /// <summary>Verifies the whole-seconds clamp rounds sub-second/negative durations up to a minimum of one.</summary>
+    /// <param name="seconds">The input duration in seconds.</param>
+    /// <param name="expected">The expected clamped value in whole seconds.</param>
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(0.4, 1)]   // sub-second rounds up to 1 (the int-cast truncation guard)
+    [InlineData(2.0, 2)]
+    [InlineData(-5.0, 1)]  // negative clamps to 1
+    public void ClampToWholeSeconds_rounds_up_min_one(double seconds, int expected)
+        => ModbusSocketLifecycle.ClampToWholeSeconds(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(seconds)).ShouldBe(expected);
+
+    /// <summary>Verifies a connect to a dead port surfaces the underlying socket failure.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Connect_to_dead_port_surfaces_socket_failure()
+    {
+        var life = new ModbusSocketLifecycle("127.0.0.1", 1, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(300),
+            autoReconnect: false);
+        await Should.ThrowAsync<System.Net.Sockets.SocketException>(
+            life.ConnectAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+    }
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusTransportConfigRoundTripTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+public sealed class ModbusTransportConfigRoundTripTests
+{
+    // Mirrors the AdminUI ModbusDriverForm serializer: camelCase + string enums.
+    private static readonly JsonSerializerOptions _adminOpts = new()
+    {
+        PropertyNamingPolicy = JsonNamingPolicy.CamelCase,
+        Converters = { new JsonStringEnumConverter() },
+    };
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Transport_serializes_as_a_string_not_a_number()
+    {
+        var opts = new ModbusDriverOptions { Host = "10.20.0.50", Port = 4001, Transport = ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp };
+        var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(opts, _adminOpts);
+        json.ShouldContain("\"transport\":\"RtuOverTcp\"");
+        json.ShouldNotContain("\"transport\":1", Case.Sensitive);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Factory_binds_RtuOverTcp_from_string_config()
+    {
+        const string json = """{ "host": "10.20.0.50", "port": 4001, "transport": "RtuOverTcp" }""";
+        using var driver = ModbusDriverFactoryExtensions.CreateInstance("mb-rtu", json);
+        var opts = (ModbusDriverOptions)typeof(ModbusDriver)
+            .GetField("_options", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance)!
+            .GetValue(driver)!;
+        opts.Transport.ShouldBe(ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Factory_defaults_Transport_to_Tcp_when_omitted()
+    {
+        const string json = """{ "host": "10.0.0.10" }""";
+        using var driver = ModbusDriverFactoryExtensions.CreateInstance("mb-tcp", json);
+        var opts = (ModbusDriverOptions)typeof(ModbusDriver)
+            .GetField("_options", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance)!
+            .GetValue(driver)!;
+        opts.Transport.ShouldBe(ModbusTransportMode.Tcp);
+    }
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusTransportFactoryTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+public sealed class ModbusTransportFactoryTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public void Tcp_mode_builds_tcp_transport()
+        => ModbusTransportFactory.Create(new ModbusDriverOptions { Transport = ModbusTransportMode.Tcp })
+            .ShouldBeOfType<ModbusTcpTransport>();
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void RtuOverTcp_mode_builds_rtu_transport()
+        => ModbusTransportFactory.Create(new ModbusDriverOptions { Transport = ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp })
+            .ShouldBeOfType<ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport>();
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Default_options_build_tcp_transport()
+        => ModbusTransportFactory.Create(new ModbusDriverOptions())
+            .ShouldBeOfType<ModbusTcpTransport>();
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Unknown_transport_mode_throws()
+        => Should.Throw<ArgumentOutOfRangeException>(
+            () => ModbusTransportFactory.Create(new ModbusDriverOptions { Transport = (ModbusTransportMode)999 }));
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusTransportModeTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+public sealed class ModbusTransportModeTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public void Tcp_is_the_default_zero_member()
+        => ((ModbusTransportMode)0).ShouldBe(ModbusTransportMode.Tcp);
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Exactly_two_members_ship_in_v1()
+        => Enum.GetNames<ModbusTransportMode>().ShouldBe(["Tcp", "RtuOverTcp"]);
+}

tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests/ModbusTransportWiringTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Confirms the driver's default transport-factory closure — and, by extension, the
+///     probe's transport construction — routes through <see cref="ModbusTransportFactory"/>
+///     instead of hardcoding <see cref="ModbusTcpTransport"/>, so an <c>RtuOverTcp</c>-authored
+///     config actually gets RTU framing rather than silently running as TCP/MBAP.
+/// </summary>
+[Trait("Category", "Unit")]
+public sealed class ModbusTransportWiringTests
+{
+    private static IModbusTransport BuildDefaultTransport(ModbusDriverOptions opts)
+    {
+        using var driver = new ModbusDriver(opts, "wire-test");
+        var factory = (Func<ModbusDriverOptions, IModbusTransport>)typeof(ModbusDriver)
+            .GetField("_transportFactory", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance)!
+            .GetValue(driver)!;
+        return factory(opts);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Default_closure_builds_rtu_transport_for_RtuOverTcp()
+        => BuildDefaultTransport(new ModbusDriverOptions { Transport = ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp })
+            .ShouldBeOfType<ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport>();
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Default_closure_builds_tcp_transport_for_Tcp()
+        => BuildDefaultTransport(new ModbusDriverOptions())
+            .ShouldBeOfType<ModbusTcpTransport>();
+}

tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI.Tests/ScriptAnalysis/ScriptTagCatalogTests.cs

@@ -13,14 +13,21 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI.Tests.ScriptAnalysis;
 /// pass to <c>ctx.GetTag("…")</c> / <c>ctx.SetVirtualTag("…")</c>.
 /// </summary>
 /// <remarks>
-/// Fidelity finding (see <see cref="ScriptTagCatalog"/> doc comment): the runtime Akka path resolves
+/// <para>
-/// a <c>ctx.GetTag</c> literal against the driver <b>FullName</b> (the wire reference in
+/// Fidelity finding (see the <see cref="ScriptTagCatalog"/> doc comment): the runtime resolves a
-/// <c>Tag.TagConfig.FullName</c>), NOT the UNS browse path — the UNS-path engine is dormant. v3: Tag is
+/// <c>ctx.GetTag</c> literal through <c>DependencyMuxActor._byRef</c>, keyed Ordinal by the driver's
-/// Raw-only (no <c>EquipmentId</c>/<c>FolderPath</c>/<c>DriverInstanceId</c>), so the catalog projects
+/// wire reference — and in v3 that wire reference <b>is the RawPath</b>
-/// the surviving <c>Name</c>/<c>DataType</c>/<c>TagConfig</c> columns: the resolvable path derives from
+/// (<c>Folder/…/Driver/Device/[TagGroup/…]/Tag</c>). So the catalog projects RawPaths for raw tags and
-/// the <c>TagConfig.FullName</c> field when present, else the tag <c>Name</c>; the projected
+/// the leaf <c>Name</c> for virtual tags.
-/// <c>DriverInstanceId</c> is always <see langword="null"/>. Virtual tags emit their leaf Name. These
+/// </para>
-/// assertions check the resolvable key is present AND that the UNS browse paths are absent.
+/// <para>
+/// These assertions were rewritten for #490. They previously pinned the pre-v3 projection —
+/// <c>Tag.TagConfig.FullName</c> — which since v3 is not the mux key at all, so they were encoding a
+/// contract the runtime had stopped honouring: completion offered paths that could never resolve, and a
+/// correct absolute RawPath resolved to nothing. The seed now builds a real raw topology
+/// (RawFolder → DriverInstance → Device → TagGroup → Tag) because a RawPath only exists if that chain
+/// does.
+/// </para>
 /// </remarks>
 [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
 public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
@@ -43,8 +50,9 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
     }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Seeds an Area → Line → Equipment path with: one equipment driver tag (FullName "Motor.Speed"),
+    /// Seeds the UNS path (Area → Line → Equipment) AND the raw topology a RawPath is built from:
-    /// one virtual tag, and one FolderPath-scoped tag (EquipmentId null, FolderPath set).
+    /// RawFolder "Plant" → DriverInstance "Modbus" → Device "dev1", with one tag directly under the
+    /// device and one under a nested TagGroup. A virtual tag is added for the leaf-Name projection.
     /// </summary>
     private static void Seed(DbContextOptions<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext> opts)
     {
@@ -61,26 +69,38 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
             MachineCode = "machine_001",
         });
 
-        // Raw tag — the GetTag key is the driver FullName from TagConfig.
+        // Raw topology — the ancestry a RawPath is composed from.
+        db.RawFolders.Add(new RawFolder { RawFolderId = "RF-1", ClusterId = "MAIN", ParentRawFolderId = null, Name = "Plant" });
+        db.DriverInstances.Add(new DriverInstance
+        {
+            DriverInstanceId = "DRV-1", ClusterId = "MAIN", RawFolderId = "RF-1",
+            Name = "Modbus", DriverType = "Modbus", DriverConfig = "{}",
+        });
+        db.Devices.Add(new Device { DeviceId = "DEV-1", DriverInstanceId = "DRV-1", Name = "dev1", DeviceConfig = "{}" });
+        db.TagGroups.Add(new TagGroup { TagGroupId = "TG-1", DeviceId = "DEV-1", ParentTagGroupId = null, Name = "Motors" });
+
+        // Directly under the device -> Plant/Modbus/dev1/Speed
         db.Tags.Add(new Tag
         {
             TagId = "TAG-EQ",
             DeviceId = "DEV-1",
+            TagGroupId = null,
             Name = "Speed",
             DataType = "Float",
             AccessLevel = TagAccessLevel.Read,
             TagConfig = "{\"FullName\":\"Motor.Speed\"}",
         });
 
-        // Raw tag whose FullName is an MXAccess dot-ref; resolves by that FullName.
+        // Under a tag group -> Plant/Modbus/dev1/Motors/Torque
         db.Tags.Add(new Tag
         {
-            TagId = "TAG-SP",
+            TagId = "TAG-GRP",
             DeviceId = "DEV-1",
-            Name = "DownloadPath",
+            TagGroupId = "TG-1",
-            DataType = "String",
+            Name = "Torque",
+            DataType = "Double",
             AccessLevel = TagAccessLevel.Read,
-            TagConfig = "{\"FullName\":\"DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath\"}",
+            TagConfig = "{\"FullName\":\"Motor.Torque\"}",
         });
 
         db.VirtualTags.Add(new VirtualTag
@@ -95,30 +115,27 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
         db.SaveChanges();
     }
 
-    /// <summary>A null filter returns only the resolvable keys: the driver FullName for the equipment
+    /// <summary>The v3 resolvable keys: a RawPath per raw tag (device-level and group-nested), plus the
-    /// tag, the MXAccess dot-ref for the FolderPath-scoped tag, and the virtual tag's leaf Name — and
+    /// virtual tag's leaf Name — and NOT the pre-v3 <c>TagConfig.FullName</c>, which is no longer the mux
-    /// NONE of the UNS browse paths.</summary>
+    /// key and would suggest a path that cannot resolve at runtime (#490).</summary>
     [Fact]
-    public async Task GetPaths_no_filter_returns_resolvable_keys_only()
+    public async Task GetPaths_no_filter_returns_rawpaths_only()
     {
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
         Seed(opts);
 
         var paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync(null, default);
 
-        // Equipment driver tag: the authoritative GetTag key (driver FullName).
+        paths.ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Speed");          // directly under the device
-        paths.ShouldContain("Motor.Speed");
+        paths.ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Motors/Torque");  // nested under a tag group
+        paths.ShouldContain("Computed");                          // virtual tag: leaf Name
 
-        // FolderPath-scoped tag: MXAccess dot-ref.
+        // The pre-v3 wire address is NOT a resolvable key in v3.
-        paths.ShouldContain("DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath");
+        paths.ShouldNotContain("Motor.Speed");
+        paths.ShouldNotContain("Motor.Torque");
 
-        // Virtual tag: leaf Name only.
+        // UNS browse paths are intentionally NOT suggested (that engine is dormant).
-        paths.ShouldContain("Computed");
-
-        // The UNS browse paths are intentionally NOT suggested (the UNS-path engine is dormant).
         paths.ShouldNotContain("Assembly/LineA/Machine1/Speed");
-        paths.ShouldNotContain("DelmiaReceiver_001/DownloadPath");
-        paths.ShouldNotContain("Assembly/LineA/Machine1/Computed");
     }
 
     /// <summary>The result is distinct.</summary>
@@ -133,37 +150,66 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
         paths.Distinct(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase).Count().ShouldBe(paths.Count);
     }
 
-    /// <summary>A literal prefix narrows the result (case-insensitive StartsWith) to matching keys.</summary>
+    /// <summary>A literal prefix narrows the result (case-insensitive StartsWith). This is the completion
+    /// path an author actually hits: typing a partial absolute RawPath inside ctx.GetTag("…").</summary>
     [Fact]
-    public async Task GetPaths_prefix_filter_narrows()
+    public async Task GetPaths_prefix_filter_narrows_on_a_partial_rawpath()
     {
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
         Seed(opts);
 
-        var paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync("Motor", default);
+        var paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync("Plant/Modbus/dev1/", default);
 
-        paths.ShouldContain("Motor.Speed");
+        paths.ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Speed");
-        paths.ShouldNotContain("DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath");
+        paths.ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Motors/Torque");
         paths.ShouldNotContain("Computed");
-        paths.ShouldAllBe(p => p.StartsWith("Motor", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+        paths.ShouldAllBe(p => p.StartsWith("Plant/Modbus/dev1/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
     }
 
-    /// <summary>The prefix match is case-insensitive.</summary>
+    /// <summary>The prefix match is case-insensitive (completion is forgiving; the exact lookup is not).</summary>
     [Fact]
     public async Task GetPaths_prefix_filter_is_case_insensitive()
     {
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
         Seed(opts);
 
-        var paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync("motor", default);
+        (await catalog.GetPathsAsync("plant/modbus", default)).ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Speed");
-
-        paths.ShouldContain("Motor.Speed");
     }
 
-    /// <summary>A tag whose <c>TagConfig</c> is malformed JSON must not throw — the catalog falls back
+    /// <summary>A tag whose ancestry chain is broken (device row missing) has no RawPath. The runtime could
-    /// to the raw blob and still returns every other tag.</summary>
+    /// not route it either, so it is omitted rather than guessed — and it must not throw or suppress the
+    /// tags that DO resolve.</summary>
     [Fact]
-    public async Task GetPaths_malformed_tagconfig_does_not_throw()
+    public async Task GetPaths_tag_with_a_broken_ancestry_chain_is_omitted()
+    {
+        var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
+        Seed(opts);
+
+        using (var db = new OtOpcUaConfigDbContext(opts))
+        {
+            db.Tags.Add(new Tag
+            {
+                TagId = "TAG-ORPHAN",
+                DeviceId = "DEV-DOES-NOT-EXIST",
+                Name = "Orphan",
+                DataType = "Float",
+                AccessLevel = TagAccessLevel.Read,
+                TagConfig = "{}",
+            });
+            db.SaveChanges();
+        }
+
+        IReadOnlyList<string> paths = [];
+        await Should.NotThrowAsync(async () => paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync(null, default));
+
+        paths.ShouldNotContain("Orphan");
+        paths.ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Speed");
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>A malformed <c>TagConfig</c> is irrelevant to the RawPath (which comes from the topology,
+    /// not the blob) — it must neither throw nor drop the tag.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task GetPaths_malformed_tagconfig_does_not_affect_the_rawpath()
     {
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
         Seed(opts);
@@ -185,37 +231,33 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
         IReadOnlyList<string> paths = [];
         await Should.NotThrowAsync(async () => paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync(null, default));
 
-        // The malformed tag falls through to the raw blob (acceptable), and the other tags still appear.
+        paths.ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Broken");
-        paths.ShouldContain("Motor.Speed");
+        paths.ShouldContain("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Speed");
-        paths.ShouldContain("DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath");
-        paths.ShouldContain("Computed");
     }
 
-    /// <summary>A FolderPath-scoped tag with a null/empty <c>FolderPath</c> yields just its <c>Name</c>
+    /// <summary>A driver at the cluster root (no RawFolder) contributes no folder segment.</summary>
-    /// (no leading dot).</summary>
     [Fact]
-    public async Task GetPaths_unbound_tag_without_folder_yields_name_only()
+    public async Task GetPaths_driver_at_cluster_root_has_no_folder_segment()
     {
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
 
         using (var db = new OtOpcUaConfigDbContext(opts))
         {
+            db.DriverInstances.Add(new DriverInstance
+            {
+                DriverInstanceId = "DRV-ROOT", ClusterId = "MAIN", RawFolderId = null,
+                Name = "RootDrv", DriverType = "Modbus", DriverConfig = "{}",
+            });
+            db.Devices.Add(new Device { DeviceId = "DEV-ROOT", DriverInstanceId = "DRV-ROOT", Name = "d0", DeviceConfig = "{}" });
             db.Tags.Add(new Tag
             {
-                TagId = "TAG-SP-ROOT",
+                TagId = "TAG-ROOT", DeviceId = "DEV-ROOT", Name = "Scalar",
-                DeviceId = "DEV-1",
+                DataType = "String", AccessLevel = TagAccessLevel.Read, TagConfig = "{}",
-                Name = "RootScalar",
-                DataType = "String",
-                AccessLevel = TagAccessLevel.Read,
-                TagConfig = "{\"FullName\":\"RootScalar\"}",
             });
             db.SaveChanges();
         }
 
-        var paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync(null, default);
+        (await catalog.GetPathsAsync(null, default)).ShouldContain("RootDrv/d0/Scalar");
-
-        paths.ShouldContain("RootScalar");
-        paths.ShouldNotContain(".RootScalar");
     }
 
     /// <summary>An empty database yields an empty list rather than throwing.</summary>
@@ -224,26 +266,24 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
     {
         var (catalog, _) = Fresh();
 
-        var paths = await catalog.GetPathsAsync(null, default);
+        (await catalog.GetPathsAsync(null, default)).ShouldBeEmpty();
-
-        paths.ShouldBeEmpty();
     }
 
-    /// <summary>A raw tag whose FullName is a dot-ref resolves by that FullName to a Tag-kind info with
+    /// <summary>Hover: an absolute RawPath resolves to Tag-kind info carrying the configured DataType and —
-    /// the configured DataType. v3: Tag no longer binds a driver, so the projected DriverInstanceId is null.</summary>
+    /// new in #490 — the owning driver instance, which the topology now makes available.</summary>
     [Fact]
-    public async Task GetTagInfo_unbound_tag_returns_tag_info()
+    public async Task GetTagInfo_absolute_rawpath_returns_tag_info_with_driver()
     {
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
         Seed(opts);
 
-        var info = await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath", default);
+        var info = await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Motors/Torque", default);
 
         info.ShouldNotBeNull();
-        info!.Path.ShouldBe("DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath");
+        info!.Path.ShouldBe("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Motors/Torque");
         info.Kind.ShouldBe("Tag");
-        info.DataType.ShouldBe("String");
+        info.DataType.ShouldBe("Double");
-        info.DriverInstanceId.ShouldBeNull();
+        info.DriverInstanceId.ShouldBe("DRV-1");
     }
 
     /// <summary>A virtual tag resolves by its leaf Name to a "Virtual tag"-kind info with no driver.</summary>
@@ -256,12 +296,22 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
         var info = await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("Computed", default);
 
         info.ShouldNotBeNull();
-        info!.Path.ShouldBe("Computed");
+        info!.Kind.ShouldBe("Virtual tag");
-        info.Kind.ShouldBe("Virtual tag");
         info.DataType.ShouldBe("Double");
         info.DriverInstanceId.ShouldBeNull();
     }
 
+    /// <summary>The pre-v3 wire address no longer resolves — the regression #490 is really about. Hovering
+    /// one must report "not a known path" rather than validating a string the runtime would drop.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task GetTagInfo_pre_v3_fullname_no_longer_resolves()
+    {
+        var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
+        Seed(opts);
+
+        (await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("Motor.Speed", default)).ShouldBeNull();
+    }
+
     /// <summary>An unknown path resolves to null.</summary>
     [Fact]
     public async Task GetTagInfo_unknown_path_returns_null()
@@ -269,19 +319,20 @@ public sealed class ScriptTagCatalogTests
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
         Seed(opts);
 
-        (await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("NoSuchPath", default)).ShouldBeNull();
+        (await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("Plant/Modbus/dev1/NoSuchTag", default)).ShouldBeNull();
     }
 
-    /// <summary>The lookup is case-SENSITIVE (Ordinal): a path that differs only in case does NOT
+    /// <summary>The lookup is case-SENSITIVE (Ordinal), mirroring the runtime DependencyMuxActor's
-    /// resolve, mirroring the runtime DependencyMuxActor's StringComparer.Ordinal keying.</summary>
+    /// StringComparer.Ordinal keying — a case-mismatched path would not resolve live, so hover must not
+    /// claim it does.</summary>
     [Fact]
     public async Task GetTagInfo_case_mismatch_returns_null_ordinal()
     {
         var (catalog, opts) = Fresh();
         Seed(opts);
 
-        (await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("motor.speed", default)).ShouldBeNull();
+        (await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("plant/modbus/dev1/speed", default)).ShouldBeNull();
-        (await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("Motor.Speed", default)).ShouldNotBeNull();
+        (await catalog.GetTagInfoAsync("Plant/Modbus/dev1/Speed", default)).ShouldNotBeNull();
     }
 
     // -----------------------------------------------------------------------

tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI.Tests/Uns/ModbusDriverFormModelTests.cs

@@ -61,4 +61,15 @@ public sealed class ModbusDriverFormModelTests
         json.ShouldContain("\"family\":\"MELSEC\"");           // enum-as-name (not a number), camelCase key
         json.ShouldNotContain("\"family\":0", Case.Sensitive); // never the numeric enum form
     }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Round_trip_preserves_Transport_mode()
+    {
+        var form = new ModbusDriverForm.FormModel { Transport = ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp };
+        var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(form.ToOptions(), JsonOpts);
+        var back = ModbusDriverForm.FormModel.FromOptions(
+            JsonSerializer.Deserialize<ModbusDriverOptions>(json, JsonOpts)!);
+        back.Transport.ShouldBe(ModbusTransportMode.RtuOverTcp);
+        json.ShouldContain("\"transport\":\"RtuOverTcp\""); // name string, never a number
+    }
 }

tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorNativeAlarmAckRoutingTests.cs

@@ -86,8 +86,19 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActorNativeAlarmAckRoutingTests : RuntimeActorTest
 
         actor.Tell(new DriverHostActor.RouteNativeAlarmAck("Plant/gw/dev1/does-not-exist", "cmt", "alice"));
 
-        // Give the (fire-and-forget) handler time to run; the unmapped node must produce no ack.
+        // POSITIVE CONTROL, not a sleep (#501). `Acks` is empty at t=0, so any assertion made before the
-        AwaitAssert(() => recorder.Acks.ShouldBeEmpty(), duration: TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(800));
+        // host has processed the message above passes without testing anything — and AwaitAssert returns on
+        // its FIRST success, so it spends none of its duration and is the wrong tool for an absence.
+        //
+        // Instead send a MAPPED ack afterwards. The host processes its mailbox in order and forwards to the
+        // child via Tell, and the child handles RouteAlarmAck with ReceiveAsync (which suspends its own
+        // mailbox), so by the time this one reaches the driver the unmapped one has provably already been
+        // handled. Whatever `Acks` holds then is the complete answer.
+        actor.Tell(new DriverHostActor.RouteNativeAlarmAck(AlarmRawPath, "control", "alice"));
+
+        AwaitAssert(() => recorder.Acks.ShouldContain(a => a.Comment == "control"), duration: Timeout);
+        recorder.Acks.Count.ShouldBe(1,
+            "only the control ack may reach the driver — the unmapped condition NodeId must have been dropped");
     }
 
     /// <summary>On a SECONDARY node the ack is gated off (same primary gate as the inbound write path): the
@@ -110,10 +121,25 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActorNativeAlarmAckRoutingTests : RuntimeActorTest
             },
             CorrelationId.NewId()));
 
-        actor.Tell(new DriverHostActor.RouteNativeAlarmAck(AlarmRawPath, "cmt", "alice"));
+        actor.Tell(new DriverHostActor.RouteNativeAlarmAck(AlarmRawPath, "gated", "alice"));
 
-        // No ack reached the driver — the gate short-circuited before the inverse-map lookup.
+        // POSITIVE CONTROL (#501) — same reasoning as the unmapped-node test, with the role itself as the
-        AwaitAssert(() => recorder.Acks.ShouldBeEmpty(), duration: TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(800));
+        // control: return the node to PRIMARY and re-send the SAME mapped ack. Mailbox ordering means that
+        // once this one reaches the driver, the Secondary-gated one has already been processed. The
+        // discriminator is the comment, so a leaked ack is visible rather than merged into the count.
+        actor.Tell(new RedundancyStateChanged(
+            new[]
+            {
+                new NodeRedundancyState(TestNode, RedundancyRole.Primary,
+                    IsClusterLeader: true, IsDriverPrimary: true, AsOfUtc: DateTime.UtcNow),
+            },
+            CorrelationId.NewId()));
+        actor.Tell(new DriverHostActor.RouteNativeAlarmAck(AlarmRawPath, "control", "alice"));
+
+        AwaitAssert(() => recorder.Acks.ShouldContain(a => a.Comment == "control"), duration: Timeout);
+        recorder.Acks.ShouldNotContain(a => a.Comment == "gated",
+            "the Primary gate must have dropped the ack sent while this node was Secondary");
+        recorder.Acks.Count.ShouldBe(1);
     }
 
     /// <summary>Spawns the host with the recording alarm-driver factory, dispatches the deployment, and waits

tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverInstanceActorSubscriptionReconcileTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+using Akka.Actor;
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Drivers;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Harness;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Drivers;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Gitea #488 — the periodic desired-vs-actual subscription reconcile that rides
+///     <see cref="DriverInstanceActor"/>'s existing <c>health-poll</c> tick.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     <para>
+///         The hole it closes: the desired ref set is re-applied on a <b>Connected transition</b> and on a
+///         deploy's <c>SetDesiredSubscriptions</c>, and nowhere else. A subscription lost while the driver
+///         <i>stayed</i> Connected — the shape reproduced here, a subscribe that failed and was never
+///         retried — left the actor permanently subscribed to nothing while reporting Healthy.
+///     </para>
+///     <para>
+///         All three tests drive a short <c>healthPollInterval</c> rather than the production 30 s. The
+///         two absence assertions are bounded by a positive control (a counted number of ticks provably
+///         processed), never by a bare sleep.
+///     </para>
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed class DriverInstanceActorSubscriptionReconcileTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
+{
+    private static readonly TimeSpan FastPoll = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     The reconcile itself: the first subscribe fails, leaving the actor Connected with a desired set
+    ///     and no handle. Nothing else would ever retry it — no reconnect, no deploy — so a second
+    ///     subscribe can only come from the periodic reconcile.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_lost_subscription_is_re_established_while_still_connected()
+    {
+        var driver = new SubscribableStubDriver { SubscribeFailuresBeforeSuccess = 1 };
+        var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverInstanceActor.Props(driver, healthPollInterval: FastPoll));
+
+        actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.SetDesiredSubscriptions(
+            new[] { "tag-a" }, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100)));
+        actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.InitializeRequested("{}"));
+
+        // The connect-path subscribe runs and throws, so the handle stays null.
+        AwaitCondition(() => driver.SubscribeCount >= 1, PresenceBudget);
+
+        // Only the reconcile can produce this second attempt — and it must succeed this time.
+        AwaitCondition(() => driver.SubscribeCount >= 2, PresenceBudget);
+        driver.LastSubscribedRefs.ShouldBe(new[] { "tag-a" });
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     A healthy subscription is left alone — the reconcile must not re-subscribe on every tick, which
+    ///     would churn the backend every 30 s in production for no reason.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_healthy_subscription_is_not_re_subscribed_on_every_tick()
+    {
+        var publisher = new CountingHealthPublisher();
+        var driver = new SubscribableStubDriver();
+        var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverInstanceActor.Props(
+            driver, healthPublisher: publisher, healthPollInterval: FastPoll));
+
+        actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.SetDesiredSubscriptions(
+            new[] { "tag-a" }, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100)));
+        actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.InitializeRequested("{}"));
+        AwaitCondition(() => driver.SubscribeCount >= 1, PresenceBudget);
+
+        // POSITIVE CONTROL for the absence below. Every health-poll tick publishes a snapshot, so the
+        // publisher count is a direct observation of ticks PROCESSED. Waiting for several of them is what
+        // makes "SubscribeCount is still 1" mean "the reconcile ran and declined" rather than "the timer
+        // had not fired yet" — the latter would pass instantly and prove nothing.
+        var before = publisher.Count;
+        AwaitCondition(() => publisher.Count >= before + 4, PresenceBudget);
+
+        driver.SubscribeCount.ShouldBe(1,
+            "the handle is live, so the reconcile must leave it alone");
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     A driver that is not <see cref="ISubscribable"/> can still be handed a desired set. Reconciling
+    ///     it would tell <c>Subscribe</c> every tick and fail every tick, forever — so the reconcile is
+    ///     gated on the capability.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_non_subscribable_driver_is_never_reconciled()
+    {
+        var publisher = new CountingHealthPublisher();
+        var driver = new StubDriver();   // IDriver only — no ISubscribable
+        var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverInstanceActor.Props(
+            driver, healthPublisher: publisher, healthPollInterval: FastPoll));
+
+        actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.SetDesiredSubscriptions(
+            new[] { "tag-a" }, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100)));
+        actor.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.InitializeRequested("{}"));
+
+        // Same positive control: assert the reconcile stays silent across several PROCESSED ticks.
+        // EventFilter bounds the absence to this block, and the reconcile announces itself at Info —
+        // the first test above is the proof that this message does appear when the reconcile fires.
+        EventFilter.Info(contains: "periodic reconcile").Expect(0, () =>
+        {
+            var before = publisher.Count;
+            AwaitCondition(() => publisher.Count >= before + 4, PresenceBudget);
+        });
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Counts health-snapshot publishes, which is one per <c>health-poll</c> tick once the actor
+    /// is running — the observable that turns "time passed" into "ticks were processed".</summary>
+    private sealed class CountingHealthPublisher : IDriverHealthPublisher
+    {
+        private int _count;
+
+        /// <summary>Number of snapshots published so far.</summary>
+        public int Count => Volatile.Read(ref _count);
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public void Publish(string clusterId, string driverInstanceId, DriverHealth health, int errorCount5Min)
+            => Interlocked.Increment(ref _count);
+    }
+}

tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/StubDrivers.cs

@@ -114,6 +114,18 @@ internal sealed class SubscribableStubDriver : StubDriver, ISubscribable
     /// synchronously-completed stub task hides (the continuation otherwise runs inline).</summary>
     public bool UnsubscribeYields { get; set; }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     How many of the first <see cref="SubscribeAsync"/> calls throw before one succeeds. Default 0
+    ///     (always succeed) leaves existing behaviour untouched.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     This is how a test reaches the state the #488 reconcile exists for: the actor is Connected and
+    ///     holds a desired ref set, but the subscribe that should have established the handle failed, so
+    ///     <c>_subscriptionHandle</c> is null and nothing else will ever re-assert it — there is no
+    ///     connect transition coming, and no deploy.
+    /// </remarks>
+    public int SubscribeFailuresBeforeSuccess { get; set; }
+
     /// <summary>Subscribes to the specified full references.</summary>
     /// <param name="fullReferences">The full references to subscribe to.</param>
     /// <param name="publishingInterval">The publishing interval.</param>
@@ -121,8 +133,13 @@ internal sealed class SubscribableStubDriver : StubDriver, ISubscribable
     public Task<ISubscriptionHandle> SubscribeAsync(
         IReadOnlyList<string> fullReferences, TimeSpan publishingInterval, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
     {
-        Interlocked.Increment(ref SubscribeCount);
+        var attempt = Interlocked.Increment(ref SubscribeCount);
         LastSubscribedRefs = fullReferences;
+        if (attempt <= SubscribeFailuresBeforeSuccess)
+        {
+            throw new InvalidOperationException($"stub subscribe failure #{attempt}");
+        }
+
         return Task.FromResult<ISubscriptionHandle>(_handle);
     }
 

tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Health/PeerProbeSupervisorTests.cs

@@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ public sealed class PeerProbeSupervisorTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
             duration: PresenceBudget);
     }
 
-    /// <summary>Verifies a single-node snapshot (just the local node) spawns no children.</summary>
+    /// <summary>Verifies a single-node snapshot (just the local node) spawns no children — the local node
+    /// is never its own probe peer. Established against a following two-node snapshot as a positive
+    /// control, so the count of 1 (rather than 2) is what carries the "no local child" claim.</summary>
     [Fact]
     public void Single_node_snapshot_spawns_no_children()
     {
@@ -87,7 +89,20 @@ public sealed class PeerProbeSupervisorTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
 
         sup.Tell(Snapshot(State(Local, RedundancyRole.Primary)));
 
-        AwaitAssert(() => sup.UnderlyingActor.ChildCount.ShouldBe(0),
+        // POSITIVE CONTROL (#501). This is an ABSENCE assertion, and ChildCount is 0 before the snapshot
+        // above has been processed at all — so asserting it directly passes at t=0 and proves nothing
+        // (AwaitAssert returns on its first success, spending none of its duration). Unlike the other
+        // ChildCount.ShouldBe(0) waits in this class, there is no preceding ShouldBe(1) to make it a
+        // transition.
+        //
+        // Follow with a snapshot that DOES spawn exactly one child. The supervisor processes its mailbox
+        // in order, so once the count reaches 1 the single-node snapshot has provably been handled — and
+        // had it spawned a child for the local node, the count would be 2.
+        sup.Tell(Snapshot(
+            State(Local, RedundancyRole.Primary),
+            State(Peer, RedundancyRole.Secondary)));
+
+        AwaitAssert(() => sup.UnderlyingActor.ChildCount.ShouldBe(1),
             duration: PresenceBudget);
     }