Jan Kiszka wrote:
* Initial RTNet support (CVS)
Very good extension, unfortunately not yet functional ;)
:-)
Indeed, it is still work in progress, but I decided to release a new LiveCD anyway,
because several new ADEOS patches and Fusion tarballs were released.
But, it somehow show what I intend to do, namely, make the configuration of RTNet
as easy as possible by using a bootable CD and "graphical" user interfaces.
First, you should add dialogs to set the station's IP and give the master the list of expected slaves. Otherwise, no real-time network will be able to start (all nodes currently start with default IP 10.0.0.1).
I wanted to make a simple two-station real-time network, and preconfigure the LiveCD for that purpose
so that it can run the round-trip-time and submit the results to the Internet database.
This preconfigured setup with just two menu-entries "start master" and "start client" should make
it a lot easier to test RTnet for people with no experience whatsoever with [real-time] networks.
And then there is the question what test you want to run over RTnet. Our typical scenario is the round trip example from /addons/examples/rtmac/round-trip-time, using "multi-client" on one station and "server" on the others. This example also comes with a usermode tool to display the results on the multi-client box. Or you may simply use rtping, but this will test a much smaller subset of RTnet.
My intention is to add the round-trip-time test to the CD.
We will hopefully have "official" fusion support in the RTnet SVN soon. We furthermore already have functional TDMA-V2, which would be interesting to compare with the previous revision and to test the new station hot-plugging and backup master features. Let us know when you have questions about this.
Are both versions still in SVN? Can I build RTnet with both TDMA-V1 en TDMA-V2 modules?
Actually, this extension comes at the right time as RTnet now desperately needs testing!
Great! :-) Hopefully it can benefit the project!
BTW, did I oversee some download link for the CD sources? Would be very interesting for us to put in always the latest RTnet version for own tests.
Actually, all sources are on the CDROM, as there is actually not much sourcecode involved. All scripts are found
in the /etc/ directory hierarchy.
I've also received a request from other people to write a short HOWTO, to explain how to create these ISO-images.
I've just updated my RTnet tree and added it here to my local ISO image. Is TDMA-V2 included in trunk? Is
it enabled in a default ./configure && make?
With friendly regards, Takis
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