Ethernet interfaces

The O3R has two Ethernet ports, eth0 and eth1. These ports can both be used to communicate with the platform or with external devices (other sensors or computing platforms, displays, etc).

By default, eth0 is configured to the static IP 192.168.0.69, and eth1 to DHCP with automatic IP assignment.

With the current network setup, we expect eth0 to be used for communication to and fro a complex network. eth1 is expected to be used for bringing in external devices and other sensors. You might encounter networking issues if using eth1 as your primary communication interface, due to the underlying network setting in the O3R VPU linux-based OS.

Set a static IP

To set a static IP to a port, you need to switch the use of DHCP to false. This can be done using the ifm3d CLI:

$ ifm3d dump | jq '.device.network.interfaces.eth1.useDHCP=false' | ifm3d config

An IP address will be automatically assigned to the port:

$ ifm3d dump | jq .device.network.interfaces.eth1
{
  "ipAddressConfig": 1,
  "ipv4": {
    "address": "192.254.1.69",
    "dns": "192.254.1.255",
    "gateway": "192.254.1.201",
    "mask": 24
  },
  "mac": "00:02:01:23:41:59",
  "networkSpeed": 10,
  "useDHCP": false
}

Note: new network settings will only be applied after reboot. Use for instance ifm3d reboot.

To change the IP address manually once DHCP is disabled, you can for instance do the following:

$ ifm3d dump | jq '.device.network.interfaces.eth1.ipv4.address="192.254.2.69"' | ifm3d config
$ ifm3d dump | jq '.device.network.interfaces.eth1.ipv4.dns="192.254.2.255"' | ifm3d config
$ ifm3d dump | jq '.device.network.interfaces.eth1.ipv4.address="192.254.2.201"' | ifm3d config