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<body><div>Hello Mike,</div><div><br></div><div>If the master starts the interfaces, he removes the igb driver and loads the ec_igb driver by default.</div><div>So both interfaces are managed by the ec_igb driver.</div><div>But only one is used for ethercat. The other interface is registered as normal NIC to the kernel.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Am Montag, dem 15.01.2024 um 12:46 +1030 schrieb Mike O'Connor:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Hi All</p><p>I'm configuring a box which has two Ethernet interfaces using the same network driver for both (igb)</p><p>Using the packages build by Forian and his team (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:bone11111:branches:science:EtherLab">https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:bone11111:branches:science:EtherLab</a>) I would like to configure one port for EtherCAT and the other for normal usage.</p><p>It seems to me that when I set the driver to "igb" in /etc/ethercat.conf and enter an interface name or mac address in MASTER0_DEVICE the ec_igb driver seems to still override both interfaces.</p><p>As the ec_igb is not the best for general Ethernet usage it would be best to keep the normal driver active.</p><p>How do I accomplish this?</p><div> Thanks<br> Mike </div><p><br></p><div> <br> <lt-container></lt-container></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>