Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

zhang hao <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:01:24 +0800 (CST)

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:32:48 -0600
From: Marty Kraimer <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Hill <[email protected]>
Cc: Coles Sibley <[email protected]>, EPICS-tech-talk <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CA online: A call to "assert (semTake ...

Jeff Hill wrote:
> 
> Hi Coles,
> 
> The symptoms you describe occur when you try to run EPICS R3.13 with the
> SENS IP kernel which is option with vxWorks 5.3 and I suspect mandatory
> with vxWorks 5.4. You can avoid this problem by choosing to _not_ install
> SENs when you install vxWorks 5.3. The API used to query the broadcast
> addresses used for each network interface card changes when using the
> SENS IP kernel, and this causes original versions of CA to fail miserably.
> I have installed a workaround for this problem into 3.14 and could back
> patch 3.13 if there is a strong desire to use SENS with R3.13.
> 
> Jeff

I think it would be a good idea to support SENS on R3.13.

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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