On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote:

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> On 08/16/2011 11:32 PM, Page Jack wrote:
>
> my USRP N200 sometimes receive data wrong, I don't know where is the
> problem in my application or
> in hardware? So I wonder what ethernet protocol does usrp use and is it
> reliable to transmit data?
>
> Regards!
>
>
>    Do you mean samples are received incorrectly, or your high-level data
> packets are received incorrectly.
>
> The transport protocol used is based on UDP, which has no inherent
> error-recovery mechanism, but
>   when carried over a local ethernet connection, should have a
> vanishingly-tiny error rate.  Vastly more
>   likely that UHD-level UDP packets will get dropped due to buffer resource
> issues than actual data
>   errors on the packets.
>
> Keep in mind that what UHD "carries" is just samples of an analog
> phenomenon. While it carries those
>   samples quite faithfully, the samples themselves may be distorted in many
> different ways that affect
>   their "fidelity".
>
>
>
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The ethernet card should through out any ethernet frames that do not pass a
check sum. So you should not receive any frames with errors.

--Colby
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