Re: [etherlab-users] Redundancy support

2015-03-19 Thread Gavin Lambert
On 20 March 2015 04:04, quoth Dave Page: > On 2015-03-06 06:00, Gavin Lambert wrote: >> Well, I've fixed that now (it was an incorrect assumption in the EtherCAT >> driver mods), but it hasn't helped the delay measurements. I guess the >> main problem is that the measurement code seems to assume th

Re: [etherlab-users] Redundancy support

2015-03-19 Thread Dave Page
On 2015-03-06 06:00, etherlab-users-requ...@etherlab.org wrote: Well, I've fixed that now (it was an incorrect assumption in the EtherCAT driver mods), but it hasn't helped the delay measurements. I guess the main problem is that the measurement code seems to assume that the receive timestamps

Re: [etherlab-users] Redundancy support

2015-03-05 Thread Gavin Lambert
Yesterday, I quoth: > Possibly some of this is related to the weird linked-but-not-linked behaviour > when the backup link is connected but unneeded (described in my prior email). Well, I've fixed that now (it was an incorrect assumption in the EtherCAT driver mods), but it hasn't helped the delay

Re: [etherlab-users] Redundancy support

2015-03-04 Thread Gavin Lambert
Yesterday, I quoth: > 2. There appear to be a few things that only seem to work on the main link, > not the backup link (unless I'm missing something). Register requests (maybe > only some types?) seem to be one of them, and I'm dubious about the DC sync > behaviour as well -- I don't think the RM

Re: [etherlab-users] Redundancy support

2015-03-03 Thread Gavin Lambert
On 27 February 2015 22:06, quoth Richard Hacker: > > I have a question regarding support for cable redundancy in the > > stable-1.5 branch. > > > > I know that it has options for enabling a "backup" network port on the > > PC and connecting the end of a single chain to this port. Presumably > > th

Re: [etherlab-users] Redundancy support

2015-02-27 Thread Richard Hacker
In principle it should work, although I have not tested it. The trick with redundancy is, that the number of visible slaves and the order of packet traversal must not change when a single link is destroyed. You are quite correct in the assumption that redundancy is transparent to the applicati

[etherlab-users] Redundancy support

2015-02-26 Thread Gavin Lambert
Hi, I have a question regarding support for cable redundancy in the stable-1.5 branch. I know that it has options for enabling a "backup" network port on the PC and connecting the end of a single chain to this port. Presumably this is mostly transparent to the application code (although it can q