[casper] Roach1 uboot network curiosity

2012-05-11 Thread Matt Dexter
Hi, Is anyone willing to explain what seems to me to be an unexpected behavior in a windows+cygwin PC to Roach1 network connection ? With the Roach1 in the uboot state. Network address (192.168.3.240) acquired via dhcp, from a directly connected windows+cygwin PC host system (192.168.3.2). Roa

Re: [casper] Roach1 uboot network curiosity

2012-05-11 Thread Glen Langston
Hi Matt, We've got a roach1 configured as a spectrometer and have similar issues. Note that the FPGA part of the roach and also the Katcp communications seem to work well. The symptom I have is ssh is not reliable without a reboot. We've left the roach running as a spectrometer for a month o

Re: [casper] Roach1 uboot network curiosity

2012-05-11 Thread G Jones
Glen, The problem you describe sounds like an issue we had during testing at Green Bank last December where the NRAO DHCP server would release the DHCP entry if the client did not renew it at regular intervals. It turns out that the ROACH linux was not renewing the DHCP entries. I think the final s

Re: [casper] Roach1 uboot network curiosity

2012-05-11 Thread John Ford
> Glen, > The problem you describe sounds like an issue we had during testing at > Green Bank last December where the NRAO DHCP server would release the DHCP > entry if the client did not renew it at regular intervals. It turns out > that the ROACH linux was not renewing the DHCP entries. I think t

Re: [casper] Roach1 uboot network curiosity

2012-05-14 Thread Marc Welz
Hello > With the Roach1 in the uboot state.  Network address (192.168.3.240) > acquired via dhcp, from a directly connected windows+cygwin > PC host system (192.168.3.2). > > Roach1 can ping the PC exactly as expected. > PC cygwin ping of Roach1 hangs. > > While PC ping is hung if the Roach1 pings

Re: [casper] Roach1 uboot network curiosity

2012-05-14 Thread Simon Scott
From my experience with uBoot, you cannot ping a board running uBoot, as uBoot does not listen for pings. You can however ping a PC from the board running uBoot. On 14/05/2012 00:23, Marc Welz wrote: Hello With the Roach1 in the uboot state. Network address (192.168.3.240) acquired via dhcp