Dear all,

while working on XPCC over raw Ethernet frames I tripped over that the same component can be instantiated in multiple containers, e.g. here.

That is actually used in the RCA robot where <container name="drive big simulation"> and <container name="drive big"> instantiate nearly all the same components (<component name="driver" />, ...)

It is then by convention that these both containers should never ever be connected to the same network at the same time. While calling actions in driver may actually work (but you will get two ACKs, and two responses), it will totally mess up if driver publishes an event. You will then get two inconsistent events from two different sources.

For efficient Ethernet frame filtering in hardware I need to add the container in the destination MAC so that a pattern match filter (first five bytes of destination MAC address) can be used. But the lookup of a container (yeah, that's kind of static routing) is not unique if the same component can be instantiated in multiple containers in the same xml file.

Any suggestions how to resolve that issue?