acl board specs. ModSim works as a modbus server. In this case you have to program your S7 as modbus client. ModScan32 works as a modbus client. If you want to realize the modbus communication with an S7, then you have to program the S7 as a modbus server. It's not possible to connect 2 modbus clients or 2 modbus servers. Wüstenräuber. ModSim is an MDI application which allows you to define multiple blocks of data points which may then be accessed from a connected modbus master. Each document opened within ModSim may be configured to represent data from the same or different slave node thereby providing simulation for an entire group of devices.