06-26-2018 09:44 PM
06-27-2018 04:32 PM
Hello JKSH,
Try this:
1- Right-click on Remote Systems, select "create new"
2- Select "Remote Device (not on the local subnet)"
3- Follow the prompted instructions.
Let us know if these instructions helped you!
07-05-2018 04:46 PM
In short, communication between the host and the cRIO has to be reliable and stable, so it's done via TCP/IP, a transport-layer network protocol that provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of data between two parties. This is also called one-to-one or unicast addressing.
Discovering devices without prior knowledge of their number or addresses requires sending a one-to-many message out into the network. This is called multicast (many receivers) or broadcast (all receivers) addressing. TCP/IP clearly doesn't support this communication scheme. The most common transport layer protocol to use multicast addressing is UDP.
There's a PDF giving a little insight into the mechanisms that MAX uses to discover devices:
Google any of the protocols and mechanisms, there's an abundance of information to be found.
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07-06-2018 02:45 AM
Just stumbled upon a very nice explanation of "how packets get around":
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=131034&seqNum=5
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07-16-2018 02:02 PM
@JKSHI'm curious: What mechanism does NI MAX us to find the the cRIO in this case?
To more directly answer your question: it doesn't.
MAX is not capable of spontaneously discovering controllers on other subnets, because as others have pointed out, discovery is fundamentally a link-local process — it doesn't cross network gateways. It can only connect to remote targets if you give its IP, or its hostname if it's registered in DNS.
FWIW, this has a couple of esoteric implications for target formatting and reimaging. If you reformat a controller on the local network, and its IP address changes, MAX is able to identify the new IP address based on its link-local broadcast announcements. But if a remote target's address changes — i.e., it's addressed by IP and its IP changes, or it's addressed by hostname and its hostname is changed or is removed from DNS — then you're out of luck.