Configuring the Network Controller

The configuration of the your network controller depends on your operation system (OS).

In case of using a virtual guest system configure only the host network controller!

One can improve the network performance considerably by configuring the network controller properly. See section “jumbo frames” and

Connecting to the Camera

The Camera is designed to be remote controlled over Openssh.

After power up it will take some time while the linux system is booting before the camera will responds.

You need to configure your network controller properly as described below before you can use the ping command.

On can use the ping terminal comand to see if the camera has booted:

If you do not have a linux or mac host system available NET provides a virtual machine image. How to set up the virtual machine is described in section Application Development / Virtual Host System below. You also can follow the steps of section Communicate with iam over windows host - without the virtual machine.

IP Address Settings

Mac / Linux

Under Linux and Mac on can use the same physical netzwork controller with multible virtuall controller settings - therefore it is not necessary to change your current network setting - just add a new virtual controller instead.

Windows 10

Open the Windows 10 start menu by pressing the windows key on your keyboard. This time type the words Control Panel and press enter.
Click the link titled View network status and tasks under the Network and Internet heading.
Click the link on the left of the window labeled Change adapter settings.
Right click on your network adapter and choose properties to open up the properties window
Find the option of Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click on it. Then choose the option under that titled Properties for example as shown below

You should test the connection by the ping command. First on your host system and in case of using a virtual guest system than inside the virtual maschine.

Configure your Network Controller Settings

Jumbo frames

Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames with more than 1500 bytes of payload, the limit set by the IEEE 802.3 standard. In particular in the context of GigEVISION jumbo frames can improve network performance massively since image data are tradionaly high volume data.

Windows: activating jumbo frames

follow the Steps 1. to 4. from the section above.

From the property window click on Configure
From the new window select the second tab Advanced
Look for the Property Jumbo Packets
Select the highest value, eg. 9014 Bytes
Confirm with OK

Interrupt Moderation

Interrupt Moderation is a feature that groups packets together and sends them as a batch. It can be responsible for sluggish behavior of the connection. For a continues image data transmission this feature is not very useful.

Windows: Disable Interupt Moderation

For diable this feature follow the Steps 1. to 4. from the section above.

From the property window click on Configure
From the new window select the second tab Advanced
Look for the Property Interrupt Moderation
Select the Disable

Other features and options

There is a Blogpost about how to Optimizing Ethernet Adapter Settings for Maximum Performance (external link).

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