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- From: fitz@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Custom ethernet mediums
- Keywords: ethernet, fiberoptics
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.222716.84612@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 22:27:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul22.222716.84612
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- Organization: Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University
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- One of our robotics projects has special requirements for data transmission
- over a tether between a transporter and a walking robot. Issues of power,
- size, weight are severe. What was decided was to multiplex signals over
- a pair of fibers at various freqs. Everything seems to work okay, but actual ethernet
- communications between the Sun(s) on the walking robot and the Sun(s) on
- the transporter are having a bit of trouble. It seems that when the Sun
- transmits a packet that the receive buffer is filled with that packet - this
- is something we cannot easily do with our system (one fiber dedicated to
- transmit and one fiber dedicated to receive). What happens is that the
- data is sent and it is correct, but the Sun decides that an error occurred
- because nothing was written into its receive buffer immediately. We know
- the packets are okay, because the remote systems (one is a real-time system
- which eventually boots from files transferred from the transporter)
- can function (the effective baud rate is around 400....really bad).
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- Does anyone know how we can disable the Sun from checking its receive buffer
- to read back what it just sent? Our only other alternative is to use PPP
- or SLIP, but we would prefer not to do this for various reasons. Any
- insights or assistance is appreciated because our timeframe is very, very
- tight.
-
- Thanks,
- Kerien Fitzpatrick
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- Kerien Fitzpatrick Pittsburgh, PA 15213
- Field Robotics Center (412)268-6564
- The Robotics Institute Internet: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu
- Carnegie Mellon University
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