I run on Fedora.
did you try setting EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=YES ?
--
Emmanuel
epics2@cr1com1 $ env | grep CA
CALC_ENV=
EPICS_EXTRAS_SSCAN=/usr/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20110214_153827/sscan/2-6-5-20110214_164746
EPICS_CA_REPEATER_PORT=5065
EPICS_CAS_AUTO_BEACON_ADDR_LIST=NO
NETSCAPEPATH=/usr/bin/firefox
EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO
EPICS_CAS_BEACON_ADDR_LIST=clslan:5065
EPICS_CA_BEACON_PERIOD=15.0
EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=clslan:5066 clslan:5068 clslan:5070 clslan:5072 clslan:5074 clslan:5076
clslan:5078 clslan:5080 clslan:5082 clslan:5084 clslan:5086 clslan:5088 clslan:5090
clslan:5064
EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PERIOD=15.0
EPICS_CA_CONN_TMO=30.0
EPICS_EXTRAS_MCA=
EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PORT=5065
EPICS_EXTRAS_CALC=/usr/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20110214_153827/calc/2-7-20110214_164803
EPICS_CA_MAX_SEARCH_PERIOD=300
EPICS_CAS_SERVER_PORT=5064
EPICS_CA_MAX_ARRAY_BYTES=16384
EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT=5064
On 17:25 Wed 23 Feb , Gerrit Kühn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I tried to run epics under FreeBSD for the first time. I have a
> fairly recent FreeBSD 8.1-something and the latest epics 3.14.12.
> Compilation went without any problem. However, I cannot get any PVs from
> my network with caget on the FreeBSD machine, they all give me "Channel
> connect timed out".
> For testing purposes I started a softIOC of the FreeBSD machine. PVs from
> this softIOC can be seen just fine from other Linux machines in the net
> using caget. But on the FreeBSD machine itself I still only get the
> timeout.
> Then I included the machine's IP explicitely into EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST. After
> this, I could get the PV coming from my local softIOC. But even adding
> another IOC's address in the network to EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST did not let me
> resolve any of its PVs with caget from the FreeBSD machine.
> This made be suspicious that something with broadcasting might be wrong.
> And indeed I could fix the problem by setting EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST
> explicitely to the broadcast address of my subnet (192.168.95.255, which
> might be a bit unusual, but has never caused any problems so far with
> Linux machines).
>
> Is there anything different with the handling of broadcasts and/or
> interfaces when using FreeBSD? Linux just works out-of-the-box and does
> not require setting EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST.
>
>
> cu
> Gerrit
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Emmanuel
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