[etherlab-users] Can we access the slave by physical addressing from the master?

[Paul Mulligan]

Hi,
If I want to access a slave on the Ethercat bus, we use the position of the slave on the bus to access it with ecrt_master_slave_config(). If we then put a new slave on the bus before this slave for example, this means that the position number of the first slave will change and we need to reconfigure our code.? This presents problems.
My question is, can we not access the slave via their physical addresses instead of this incremental position addressing, therefore not needing to update the position address every time there is a change?
Thanks
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