Re: RTNet - vnic0 question

[Per Oberg <pero@wolfram.com>]

----- Den 22 aug 2019, på kl 13:21, xenomai xenomai@xenomai.org skrev:

> Hi,

> I have made a test between two qemu-x86_64-rt_8139too with different
> mac and IP addresses,
> one is master one is slave. In each of them I do:
> /usr/xenomai/sbin/rtnet start
> Then the applications rtt-sender and rtt-responder (taken from rtnet
> 0.9.13 release) work,
> but if I turn off vnic0, then rtt-sender reports error: "sendto
> failed: Network is unreachable",
> even if rteth0 is up and fully configured.
> Do you have any simple apps that work on rtnet?

You have :
rtping 
rtifconfig 
rtroute

Perhaps these can be of assistance?

> Thank you,
> Kind regards

> On 8/22/19, Laurentiu-Cristian Duca <laurentiu.duca@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The rt drivers for bbb are taken from:
> > https://github.com/G-Ray/xenomai-boneblack-rtnet-drivers
> > and I am not 100% sure that they are working correctly.

> > On 8/22/19, Laurentiu-Cristian Duca <laurentiu.duca@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello Jan and friends

> >> Thank you for your fast answer. Please find below the details.

> >> On 8/21/19, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> >>> On 21.08.19 16:20, Laurentiu-Cristian Duca via Xenomai wrote:
> >>>> Hello rtnet community,

> >>>> I successfully tested the examples rtt-sender and rtt-responder
> >>>> within a rtnet made from one beaglebone black and one
> >>>> qemu-x86_64-8139too,
> >>>> with tdma and also with nomac.

> >>> Are we talking about some legacy Xenomai or even RTnet version? Or where
> >>> did
> >>> you
> >>> get the examples from? They are not part of RTnet in Xenomai 3.

> >> I got the examples from rtnet-0.9.13. I know they are quite old, but
> >> I needed a start point.
> >> Are these obsolete? Do you have any examples for Xenomai 3?
> >> rtnet-0.9.13/examples/xenomai/posix/rtt-sender.c
> >> rtnet-0.9.13/examples/xenomai/posix/rtt-responder.c


> >>>> I have noted that the presence of vnic0 as an up and fully
> >>>> configured interface is mandatory,
> >>>> even if rteth0 is up and fully configured.
> >>>> Otherwise the rtt-sender announces "sendto failed: Network is
> >>>> unreachable".
> >>>> Could anybody tell me why is this happening?

> >>>> I have also noted that if I disable vnic0 (ifconfig vnic0 down),
> >>>> rtping works if rteth0 is up and fully configured.
> >>>> Why does not work rtt-sender in this case?
> >>>> Could it be a problem with rtnet drivers?

> >>> I bet your examples are falling back to normal network here, and that is
> >>> provided between your test nodes via the vnics. This leads to my first
> >>> question:
> >>> Where did you pick the examples up, how did you build them etc.? Also,
> >>> did
> >>> you
> >>> make sure that rtudp was loaded?

> >> I am 100% sure that rtudp was loaded. The modules were loaded by a
> >> script:
> >> modprobe rt_smsc && modprobe rt_davinci_mdio && modprobe rt_ticpsw
> >> modprobe rtipv4 && modprobe rtpacket && modprobe rtudp
> >> modprobe rtmac
> >> modprobe nomac
> >> #modprobe tdma

> >> I used robertcnelson Xenomai 3.0.9 patch for beaglebone black linux
> >> 4.14.108. It's on github.
> >> I have also copied the rtnet header files to xenomai-userspace
> >> include. The files compile without warnings.
> >> The makefile is:
> >> # Tested with linaro toolchain
> >> (gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf)
> >> CC = arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
> >> XENO_INSTALL =
> >> /home/laur/lucru/raspberry-pi/robertcnelson/ti-linux-kernel-dev/ignore/xenomai-userspace
> >> RTNET_INSTALL =
> >> /home/laur/lucru/raspberry-pi/robertcnelson/rtnet-hiddeate2m

> >> #XENO_CONFIG :=
> >> /home/laur/lucru/raspberry-pi/robertcnelson/ti-linux-kernel-dev/ignore/xenomai-userspace/usr/xenomai/bin/xeno-config
> >> #/usr/xenomai/bin/xeno-config
> >> #CFLAGS := $(shell $(XENO_CONFIG) --posix --alchemy --cflags)
> >> #LDFLAGS := $(shell $(XENO_CONFIG) --posix --alchemy --ldflags)

> >> LIBCFLAGS = -Wall -I$(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/include/cobalt
> >> LIBCFLAGS += -I$(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/include

> >> CFLAGS = -Wall -I$(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/include/cobalt
> >> CFLAGS += -I$(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/include/alchemy
> >> -I$(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/include
> >> CFLAGS += -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv4 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT
> >> -D__COBALT__ -D__COBALT_WRAP_
> >> CFLAGS += -I$(RTNET_INSTALL)/stack/include

> >> LFLAGS = -lalchemy -lcopperplate
> >> $(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/lib/xenomai/bootstrap.o
> >> LFLAGS += -Wl,--wrap=main -Wl,--wrap=malloc -Wl,--wrap=free
> >> #-Wl,--dynamic-list=$(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/lib/dynlist.ld
> >> LFLAGS += -L$(XENO_INSTALL)/usr/xenomai/lib -lcobalt -lpthread -lrt
> >> LFLAGS += -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv4 -Llib

> >> all: rtt-sender rtt-responder
> >> rtt-sender: rtt-sender.o
> >> $(CC) -o rtt-sender rtt-sender.o $(LFLAGS)
> >> rtt-sender.o: rtt-sender.c
> >> $(CC) -c -o rtt-sender.o rtt-sender.c $(CFLAGS) $(LIBCFLAGS)
> >> (same for rtt-responder)


> >> Kind regards,
> >> L-C.


Per Öberg