lora_pkt_fwd process why?

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Just getting some stats from AEP and wondering why the LoRa pack forwarder was running and chewing some 24% cpu time

This diagram leads one to believe it’s not needed
http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/lora/lora-network-server/

What is it’s role given the AEP has the network server on it?

Thanks
Lawrence

[Jason Reiss]

Packet forwarder is used to communicate with the lora-card just like in public network. Except the UDP end-points are local.

+20% cpu time is the process polling the card for packet through the USB-SPI library.

New MTAC-LORA-H SPI cards with packet forwarder reduce to 2-6%

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Jason thanks can I use the new MTAC-LORA-H SPI on an older conduit? Or do you have a specific new version?

[Jason Reiss]

Just need mLinux 3.3.x or greater for MTAC-LORA-H

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Jason thanks for those wanting to know what version on mLinux their AEP is running this worked
cat /etc/issue

MultiTech Systems Application Execution Platform with mLinux GNU/Linux

mLinux 3.3.6 \n \l

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