Name of the EtherCAT master process (P-AXIS-00372)

The name of the EtherCAT-Master process in the real-time operation system is dependent of the used network interface. The control needs the name in order to get access to the drive interface.

Variable name

Type

Permissible range

Axis type

Dimension

ethercat_master_name

ISG_CHAR

See strings at following table

T, R

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String

Significance

ECMeth0

EtherCAT Master uses network device „eth0“

ECMeth1

EtherCAT Master uses network device „eth1“

Name of the EtherCAT master process (P-AXIS-00372) 1:

This parameter is only used for the real-time operation system INtime.