Gentle persons: I'm sorry I wasn't able to put my oar in when this subject came up again recently. I am interested in playing with rtnet in the Spring.
The trouble is, I'm certain enough of myself to believe I can successfully lash up some computers running rtai/rtnet and exchanging messages on a private ethernet segment (probably just round-tripping packets in the first instance, so I could get a sense of the latency involved), but I'm uncertain how I would relate this to EMC2. This uncertainty arises because (1) I don't see in my reading of the mail archive that there's any agreement on the protocol we'd want to use over this real-time communications channel so I don't know what I could implement that would resonate with or help others; and (2) I don't see any performance requirements or success criteria articulated for it, so I don't know how to do truly meaningful testing. Indeed, it seems to me that different respondents had rather different ideas of how they would use such a channel. Am I making sense or have I jumped the traces again? Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
