i mentioned in the other thread. This is a mission critical network during the competition. If I was in charge and my network engineering group came to me with failures and could not tell me why, it would be unacceptable. They need the tools and knowledge to track every statistic and frame/packet on the network. Like most engineering groups, they are probably underfunded, understaffed, and lacking tools to adequalty manage the network. Any dropped/delayed frame/packet should throw up a red alarm on a management system in under a second. All traffic should be mirrored to a 2nd port where it is saved. Using this saved file, an entire match can be run offline using a tool such as Wireshark. We also need a way to monitor traffic on the robot's bridge. If we know the root cause, we can fix it. There will always be exceptions which will have to be dealt with, but having he same thing take place more then a couple of times is avoidable. It may take a more exspensive device, but we need more visibility into the communication between devices. After this year, I think more teams will be debugging and monitoring during testing so they know what is "normal". It's another area that will benefit the students to learn. Everyone grab Wireshark and connect a PC with it to the DLINK and start playing
Congrats to the world champs!! Fantastic job!!