Network Devices

An ONLINE session (server) may allow other hosts (clients) to access the devices via the network. The server is started by:

ONLINE> server/async

The I/O is monitored with the following command:

ONLINE> set verbose/socket on

The client introduces the network devices by:

define/dev=stepper/mod=nd/host=has107k/port=7777/name=mot1 motr1
define/dev=dac/mod=nd/host=has107k/port=7777/name=dac1 dacr1
define/dev=timer/mod=nd/host=has107k/port=7777/name=t1 tr1

ND stands for network device, NAME is the device name on the server and 7777 is the port number of the server (7777 is the default).

The client does not store the network devices in online.dev. Instead they are introduced in exp_ini.exp after the local device list has been loaded.