9144 reported as EtherCAT master??

[maherhome]

I must be missing something ...

Our 9144 shows up as "EtherCAT Master" in my project explorer.  I've re-added the 9144 several times.  I'm new to EtherCAT but I thought the cRIO controller (in our case a 9082) was always the EtherCAT Master?!  In fact, I just saw a posting saying the 9144 can't possibly be an EtherCAT Master.  I can right click on the 9144 and set master-like properties and add XML device file.

We are looking into a 3rd party EtherCAT motor driver and this is confusing me!

Thanks,

Steve

[DirkW]

The Master you are seeing is your 9082 ethernet port configured for EtherCAT. The 9144 is the device underneeth detected as a slave.

DirkW