On Mon, July 30, 2007 10:37, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Nadym Salem wrote: >> On Thu, July 26, 2007 14:05, Nadym Salem wrote: >>> On Thu, July 26, 2007 13:55, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> Nadym Salem schrieb: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I have a master being connected to several clients using TDMA. I have >>>>> the >>>>> need to include one of the clients on the same machine as the master, >>>>> communicating via ethernet. >>>>> Thinking of the net as a logical ring, I see the problem of having to >>>>> interfaces on the master now. Do I get two rings in that case ? And >>>>> if >>>>> so, >>>>> is there a way to avoid that, since my clients have to be >>>>> synchronous. >>>> I don't get your scenario yet. I assume it's still IP-less, using >>>> packet >>>> sockets, right? What is your precise problem with the rtloopback >>>> device >>>> for local delivery? >>> Right assumed, still the same scenario. Using the loopback device I >>> would >>> have two devices on the master. If I want to include one of the slaves >>> on >>> the same machine as the master, how could I include the Slave into the >>> same TDMA "ring" ? My idea would be, to create a new rtethx device on >>> the >>> same network adapter. But I have no further idea how to solve that >>> situation. >>> If the scenario is still unclear, I could try to create a small picture >>> ;) >> >> Bringing it up again. > > Still no clue what your precise problem is, but here are some blind > comments: It doesn't matter regarding TDMA master/slave where the > application is running. You have the same TDMA API (via RTDM device > TDMA<n>) on all nodes, thus you can sync also locally on the master > clock. On the other hand RTmac/TDMA will not work over loopback, thus > you don't get anything like "two rings".
The only thing I want is a master and a slave on the same machine, with additional slaves over ethernet. But I have no idea how to configure that. If I configure a master over rteth0 and want to configure a slave now the resource is busy. But I think I have to configure a slave anyhow, don't I ? Greets, Nadym ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
