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Unread 10-01-2012, 16:58
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Re: Imaging tool for the new 4-slot cRIO

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Originally Posted by mikets View Post
Good to know. I am surprise about this though. I understand when the cRIO is rebooting, the link is lost. If the PC ethernet takes time to "recover" and so does the Ethernet switch (reestablishing link to the cRIO). But I suppose most of the swtiches may be able to recover faster than some of the PC ethernet adapters. Also, if the "formatting timeout" is short enough that it doesn't even allow the ethernet adapter to "recover", it's really too short. Any plan to fix this issue in the future?
The problem is not recovering link. The problem is the link takes some time to recover and then it has to reassign the IP address settings and get the stack all functional again. This seems to take quite some time on some machines. The timeout is already really long (60 seconds). Since we don't know what the upper bound is on this (hard to believe 60 is not enough, and yet some people still report time-outs), we think this work-around is a reasonable solution if you have an outlier PC setup. For most teams, it is not necessary.

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