I'm afraid we have also not had long-term success with the Lantronix X-port, nor the Actel Fusion devices in ROACH-1. This is why they are not present in ROACH-2. In my experience, I cannot advise anyone to rely on these devices in production systems.
Jason Manley CBF Manager SKA-SA Cell: +27 82 662 7726 Work: +27 21 506 7300 On 04 Dec 2014, at 12:41, Andrea Mattana <matt...@ira.inaf.it> wrote: > Hi all, > just to report that even some of our ROACH-1's Xport dead suddenly > loosing the great functions of remote power on/off ;( > We thought the same solution to use a low cost controller but not yet > implemented. We will do it when the new Roach2 rack will be ready. > > Cheers, > Andrea > > > Cheers, > Andrea > > 2014-12-04 2:18 GMT+01:00 Louis Dartez <louisdar...@gmail.com>: >> Hi Jason, >> >> I've encountered similar issues with R1's before. I think it comes back >> to the xports simply being unreliable. I've heard of cases in which the >> xports work for a few months but unpredictably stop working at some point. >> There have also been cases in which the xport never works to begin with. The >> latter has been the case with some of the LoFASM ROACH-1's; xport was dead >> out of the box. >> >> In one particular case this became a problem for us since we really needed >> to be able to access the auto power-on feature as well as be able to force >> the R1 on/off remotely. We ended up programming an arduino that was used as >> a 'digital finger' that emulated the pressing of the power button on the >> chassis itself. Our ROACH board at LoFASM-II at the LWA North Arm is >> configured this way. >> >> Best of luck, >> L >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 18:42, Jason Ray <j...@nrao.edu> wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> We're having an issue with a roach1 in GB where we can't access the xport. >>> It doesn't seem to respond using a web browser to the default IP of >>> 192.168.20.4. We also had our sys admin add an entry for its MAC address >>> to our DHCP server and we still cannot communicate with it. >>> >>> As far as I know, we have never even tried to access the xport on this >>> roach, much less accidentally set it to some IP we can't remember. >>> >>> We know our laptop is configured correctly because we can access xport on >>> one of the other roaches here. >>> >>> A few questions -- does anyone have a suggestion on how we could get into >>> the xport? Is there a way to reset it to the factory defaults by chance? >>> >>> We need to do this to enable the "auto power-up" feature. Is there any >>> other way to enable this feature besides xport? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jason >>> >> > > > > -- > Andrea Mattana > > I.N.A.F. - Istituto di Radioastronomia > Radiotelescopi di Medicina > Via Fiorentina, 3513 - 40059 Medicina (Bo) > Tel. 051/6965834 Fax. 051/6965810 >
