Romain Lenglet wrote: >> > I still have to find it the drivers are actually working... >> >>When you run "rtnet start", the slave should synchronize with >>the master, giving an output on the slave like "TDMA >>calibration: .... 16us" (or similar). Then it should work. >>You can also seamlessly interact with "normal" FastEthernet >>cards. Just give it a try. :-) > > > For my quick tests, I have only one PC with two 8169-based cards. > I have a gigabit switch to bind them together. > For now, I have only loaded the modules by hand, to do a basic > check of the hardware support. > > Is it possible to have a single PC play the master on one > interface, and the slave on the second controller, on the same > RT network?
In principle, yes (though I personally never tried this before). > If yes, could you give some advice about how to do that?! > > I guess that I should have two rtnet.conf files, one for each > controller, and then call rtnet start twice? > The rtnet script is still not designed to handle more than one real-time NIC. I would suggest to use it only for the first one (e.g. the master NIC) and configure the second one manually. Take a look at what the script would do and derive your own setup procedure for the second card. Of course, an extension of the rtnet script to handle multiple cards would also be welcome by us ;). Jan
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