Pixhawk Ethernet Connection With Mikrotik Routers from BlueRobotics

[noahyi]

Hello all,

We are designing an autonomous catamaran that utilizes the Omniscan 450-SS, Pixhawk 6X, and the Mikrotik Routers from the BlueBoat to establish a shared network through ethernet. We are currently in the process of setting up this network and I wanted to ask a few questions so that I am fully aware of the steps necessary to get this to work

The Pixhawk uses a netman module to set up its own network settings. According to the Pix4 wiki the configuration file would look something like this:

DEVICE=eth0 
BOOTPROTO=static 
IPADDR=192.168.0.4 
NETMASK=255.255.255.0 
ROUTER=192.168.0.254 
DNS=192.168.0.254

As the BaseStation and the BlueBoat Mikrotik routers operate on a 192.168.2.X subnet would I have to change the IPADDR to be within this subnet? Also, would I change the ROUTER, and DNS values to the BaseStation or BlueBoat router IP address?

Please let me know if you have any questions. This is the first time our group is working with ethernet and IP addresses so it has been quite the challenge.

[EliotBR (Eliot)]

Hi @noahyi, welcome to the forum

This is outside my expertise, and outside how we’ve tried to use those routers, but I’ve asked internally and will get back to you if someone has some relevant insight.

@noahyi

As the BaseStation and the BlueBoat Mikrotik routers operate on a 192.168.2.X subnet would I have to change the IPADDR to be within this subnet? Also, would I change the ROUTER, and DNS values to the BaseStation or BlueBoat router IP address?

These ideas do at least seem reasonable to me, so if you’ve been unable to connect so far then it’s likely worth trying them.