After the update of PG5 to PG5 2.1.210, why the Ether-S-Bus communication which was working correctly before, doesn’t work anymore?

FAQ #101874

 

How to know if the project is concerned about this problem?
The information stored on the PG5 TCP/IP Settings table is converted in to a .src file and this .src file is downloaded to the PCD.

The name of the file is ‘_TCPIPDBX.src’ and each Ether-S-Bus PCD does have his own file.

During runtime, the PCD does check this information to know which TCP/IP address belongs to which S-Bus IP Node.
If the file is not complete then the PCD is not able to know the TCP/IP address of the server.

The file does have to contain the same information as the TCP/IP Settings table.

Means that on the file ‘_TCPIPDBX.src’:
- the section ‘Server IP Address List’ the total amount of servers has to be listed with the same amount
  as on the TCP/IP settings table.
- the section ‘;Array of Server IP Addresses’ does have to contain all of the IP addresses
  of the servers as shown in the TCP/IP settings table.

If the information’s on the ‘_TCPIPDBX.src’ file are not the same as on the TCP/IP Settings table, then it’s necessary to use the new Spm52.exe file.

On the example below, the IP node #30 is not listed on the file ‘_TCPIPDBX.src’
TCP/IP table:

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File ‘_TCPIPDBX.src’ which does show only 33 server addresses and the IP node#30 is not shown

After the update of the Spm52.exe and compilation of the project, the file does contain also the node#30 reference as also the total number of server IP addresses is correct.