Running two sounders on one network

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum Dave,

Q1. I want to gang my mfds and my question is can I have them daisy chained and selection which sounder I want to use? I realize I can do separate systems running the cp470 on my 7" and I am ok with that if that is what I would have to do.
A1. It is indeed possible to do as you have suggested. On my own vessel, I have five a & e-Series MFD networked to one another and to four different fishfinder sounders ... each operating simultaneously. Should the MFD's have insufficient Ethernet NETWORK sockets to support such daisy chaining, then a HS5 RayNet Network Switch may be installed to permit all of the devices featuring an Ethernet interface to be networked to one another.