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On 09/13/2017 08:52 AM, Diego Sanz wrote:
> Dear EPICS community, I would like to ask you a set of questions related
> with the same topic, but for not creating different topic threads, I
> think that all of them can be treated in this one.
>
> Following CA theory on http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/docs/CAproto.html
FYI, the most recent version of this document is published
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-16/0-docs/CAproto/index.html
@Andrew, any chance of replacing the older version, or otherwise noting
that it has been superseded?
> and trying to understand how data packages flow between IOCs and EPICS
> clients, I have the following questions.
>
> Glossary: CA-1: port 5064; CA-2: port 5065
>
>
> 1. Theoretically, I can run 2 or more IOCs in the same host for the same
> IP. The first IOC takes CA-1-TCP for PV values data transmission with
> the clients, and the second one must take another port (e.j., 33003) so
> 33003-TCP for the same purpose. Besides both IOCs will be listening on
> the same UDP port CA-1. Now I lunch a #caget PVname where the
> EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST is the same IP, and it works for one of the IOCs and
> not for the other. I do the same with CSS, and occurs the same... only
> one of the IOC PVs are reachable. Is there any other configuration
> regarding this issue?
The distinction is in the reception handling of UDP broadcast vs.
unicast packets when multiple sockets are bound to the same
interface+port number. Broadcasts are received by all sockets, while
unicast by only one (which one is OS dependent).
> 2. CA theory says that the repeater process shall manage the
> communication between IOCs and clients (due to the problem of only one
> process can listen by one port on the same host). I suppose that when I
> run camonitor o caget, the caRepeater (that listen by CA-2 UDP port) is
> in charge of that. Besides, every IOC sends a Beacon message to say to
> the repeater that it is alive. But, all the EPICS clients shall work in
> that way? If I kill caRepeter, and I launch the CSS, there is no process
> on the system listening by CA-2 UDP... this is normal? where is the
> repeater standalon process working?
CAJ (java client) has it's own caRepeater equivalent (cf.
src/com/cosylab/epics/caj/CARepeater.java)
Also, recent libca, and CAJ, can generally work without receiving
beacons. A consequence is that clients may take longer to re-connect
after an IOC (re)start. Beacon "anomalies" (new server or sequence
counter reset) can reset the search interval.
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