Software
6.5 EoE (Switch Port)
The ECX-EC supports the EoE Mode “Switch Port”. In this mode all frames received on the
Ethernet interface are forwarded to the EtherCAT master and vice versa.
For the Switch Port mode no configuration is necessary, it’s
enabled by default
(in
“PreOp”/“SafeOp”/“Op” state) and requires only the according EtherCAT Master support.
For the EoE activities some statistics are recorded, see 6.3.2.3 (CoE object 0x2010).
INFORMATION
The EoE support is bound to the
primary side
slave (EC-A). Therefore the secondary
side does not support EoE.
The EoE support may be deactivated: The ECX-EC reads the EoE enabled bit from its primary-
side EEPROM (Category “General”, see [3]). If that is set to 0 (evaluated at first state change to
“PreOp”) all EoE activities are stopped.
Fig. 29 shows this exemplary for the EtherCAT Workbench:
Fig. 29:
EoE deactivation with the esd EtherCAT Workbench
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