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Re: cRIO random connection failure

Thanks for that cross-link to the other thread. It's a little confusing to have discussions in the "parent" forum, and the "child" forum at the same time.

I have 2 theories in that other thread. One involves problems when going back and forth between tethered and wireless ... and the other is related to wireless only.

I'm leaning towards a theory involving a boot-up race condition. See the other thread for the details, but, in a nutshell, our theory is that the cRIO boots up faster than the wireless bridge causing the cRIO network port to time-out.

Resetting the cRIO after the bridge is up appears to fix the problem for us.

(your mileage may vary)

edit: I just posted a question on the NI forums. Perhaps their engineers could shed some light on this theory.
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