Re: CSS EPICS PV connectivity issue

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi,

On 11/21/2013 12:24 PM, Juan Manuel Lozano wrote:
>   * IOC is in a virtual machine running Linux (192.168.1.45)
>   * CSS is in the host machine, running Windows 7 (192.168.1.33)
>   * Both systems, as you can see, share the same subnet, which is
>     192.168.1.0/24
>
> If I configure CSS with addr_list to 192.168.1.45 all works perfectly,
> but IOC's IP is dynamic so I want to force CSS to discover PVs. When I
> turn on auto_addr_list in CSS and leave addr_list empty, it doesn't
> connect. If I put 192.168.1.0 in addr_list field doesn't connect neither.
Check that both machines share the same broadcast IP address, and that 
they don't have a firewall blocking TCP or UDP traffic between them on 
ports 5064 and 5065.
> I would like to probe caget as you suggested, but I don't know if this
> is possible in Windows 7
You should be able to run caget from a command window in Windows 7, I'm 
not sure what your asking here. Does caget manage to connect when you 
run it directly on the linux machine?
- Andrew
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