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Forum Topic - connection to multiple target boards in target navigator?: (3 Items)
   
connection to multiple target boards in target navigator?  
Maybe I've missed something obvious...

For a new multi-processor design we were hoping to be able to access multiple targets from the target navigator.

As it is, in Momentics 4.0.1, the target navigator shows that the most recently plugged in target is connected.  Once 
this happens, connection to the previously connected target is lost.  Clicking on the disconnected target name will not 
restore communications.  Only a disconnect and reconnect of the ethernet connection will make that target active again.

The targets have unique ip addresses and are on the same subnet.

I had expected that any one target would be accessible at any one time, and that each target would be selectable without
 the unplug/replug routine as at present.

If anyone has experience of making this work any pointers would be much appreciated.

By the way, this is being done with an evaluation license.  We have assumed that such a license is time-limited only and
 not restricted in terms of functionality.  

thanks in advance for any clues

Tim
Re: connection to multiple target boards in target navigator?  
I don't remember such behavior in 4.0.1 Can you see more than one target 
in Target File System navigator? If yes, can you see more than one file 
system simultaneously? Can you launch from the command line more than 
one telnet session on different targets simultaneously? If no, then it 
is a networking problem. Could it be that you have one and the same IP 
address or MAC address on the targets? Why don't you try pre-release 
from the community site? (the last question dos not presume that I have 
some doubts about an ability of 4.0.1 to show more than one target).
Tim Curtis wrote:
>
> Maybe I've missed something obvious...
>
> For a new multi-processor design we were hoping to be able to access 
> multiple targets from the target navigator.
>
> As it is, in Momentics 4.0.1, the target navigator shows that the most 
> recently plugged in target is connected.  Once this happens, 
> connection to the previously connected target is lost.  Clicking on 
> the disconnected target name will not restore communications.  Only a 
> disconnect and reconnect of the ethernet connection will make that 
> target active again.
>
> The targets have unique ip addresses and are on the same subnet.
>
> I had expected that any one target would be accessible at any one 
> time, and that each target would be selectable without the 
> unplug/replug routine as at present.
>
> If anyone has experience of making this work any pointers would be 
> much appreciated.
>
> By the way, this is being done with an evaluation license.  We have 
> assumed that such a license is time-limited only and not restricted in 
> terms of functionality. 
>
> thanks in advance for any clues
>
> Tim
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
Re: connection to multiple target boards in target navigator?  
Thanks Alex for your reply.  And thanks to QNX UK FAE for tracking down the problem.

Yes, I had missed something obvious...

The u-boot MAC (ethaddr in u-boot speak) is not the same as the bsp MAC.  So while the u-boot MACs were different the 
QNX MACs were the same on each board, so once QNX started it could see only one board.

many thanks

kind regards

Tim