Dear Mr. Wilhelm, thanks for your first advices. May I ask, what do you define as "good" realtime behavior?
Could this "bad" realtime performanc be improved by using a USB-adapter with a supported chipset? Or does USB (3.0) introduce inherently bad realtime performance? Kind regards, Karl Zeilhofer On 30.04.19 07:47, Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Hagemeister wrote: > Hallo Mr Zeilhofer, > > generally the EtherCAT master should work with any Ethernet interface > which is supported by the kernel if one uses the generic driver. > > Due to the fact that the generic driver uses parts of the regular > network stack, don't expect good realtime behavior with an USB connected > adapter. > > Regards Wilhelm > > Am 30.04.2019 um 01:40 schrieb Karl Zeilhofer: >> Hi, >> >> has anyone experiences with running the IgH EtherCAT master via a >> USB-Ethernet adapter? >> I'm using one on one of my servers, which runs since years without >> problems. It uses the r8152 Ethernet driver, which is not supported. >> >> For the first tests, I don't want to configure my main Ethernet port, >> which is an e1000e, on my daily working machine. >> As far as I understood from the documentation, that Ethernet port cannot >> be used for the daily network traffic any more, right? >> >> If it would generally work over USB, I would buy a new adapter with one >> of the supported chip sets. Any recommendations? >> > > _______________________________________________ > etherlab-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users -- *Mechatronik* *Karl Zeilhofer* | Wengstraße 58 | 4643 Pettenbach | Austria *www.zeilhofer.co.at <http://www.zeilhofer.co.at/>* | [email protected] | +43 660 6591574 | *UID:*ATU64031657 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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