EPICS Re: Beacon like connection attempts from caGateway

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Subject:	Re: Beacon like connection attempts from caGateway
From:	Bo Jakobsen <[email protected]>
To:	Ralph Lange <[email protected]>, EPICS Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:52:55 +0100

Hello Ralph

Thanks for the input.
I did find similar information in a "bug report" on the gateway:
https://github.com/epics-extensions/ca-gateway/issues/13

As the network setup is based on vlan's and firewall/router roules I can not use the "on IP number based distinction" to only get beacon signals on the server side.

However, I found the following hack :

Setting the variables :
export EPICS_CAS_AUTO_BEACON_ADDR_LIST=no
export EPICS_CAS_BEACON_ADDR_LIST=localhost

before starting the cagateway process will stop the beacon signals altogether.
Can you see any reason why this is a bad idea?

Best
Bo

On 2018-10-27 22:30, Ralph Lange wrote:

Hello Bo,

You are right: port 5065/udp traffic are CA beacon messages, which are sent every 15 seconds (unless configured otherwise).

What is the server IP address (-sip <addr>) of your Gateway? If you don't configure a CA server to bind to an explicit IP, it will bind to all available network interfaces, including the one that the Gateway uses to connect to its clients (the machine called "cagw" in your case). Obviously, the CA server will also send beacons on all interfaces it binds to.

I.e., not setting the server IP of a Gateway would explain the behavior you are seeing.

Cheers,

~Ralph

References:: Beacon like connection attempts from caGateway Bo Jakobsen; Re: Beacon like connection attempts from caGateway Ralph Lange

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