bclarkso@harris.com wrote:

>I am building a circuit board with a PowerPC running VxWorks 6.3...
>The PowerPC has 2 ethernet interfaces.
>On interface 1 is the outside world.
>On interface 2 is a ethernet switch on a chip with 2 TI DSP chips
>hanging off it.
>
>I was planning on hardcoding the DSP chips IP addresses to
>192.168.1.101 and 102.
>
>I was planning on setting the PPC up as a router so we could get to
>the DSP's from the outside (telnet, debug, etc).
>
>I'd appreciate any feedback on... Is this practical? The best way?
>How do we configure the VxWorks to do the router/gateway function?
>What address would we use to access the DSPs from the outside?

I don't have any 6.x experience, but in version 5.x one does this sort
of thing using API's in the routeLib library as described in section
4.7.1 of the Network Programmer's Guide.

>thanks,

HTH

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