There you are!
I was wondering how this project was going.
As I said before, we need to know what protocol is being used.
Let me eaxplain. (Please refer to the diagrams and tutorial on pages 752-755 of 2002 NI catalog.)
802.3 is the spec for ethernet. It defines how packets will be transmitted on the wire.
Real Life analogy:
US Mail service.
It moves messages from one place to another. It defines that messages should be in an envelope. The Envelope must have a address so they know where it should be delivered to. You should also have a return address (but this is not enforced). Inside the envelope, you can put any kind of message you want as long as the person recieving it knows how to read it. The
reciever can look at the message and say "oh, this is english, I will read it in english".
Ethernet is similar. Ethernet (ignoring the electrical specs) defines a packet as consisting of
Source address (return address in US mail)
Destination address (delivery address)
Protocol (pretend there was a mark on the envelope that said this letter is in French).
Data (the letter itself)
Checksum (letter pages number as 1 of 4, 2 of 4, etc).
So what you have told me so far is that you want to send a letter!
You have been asking me how to comunicate with the other person but you have not told me what language they speak!
There are many different languages (i.e. protocol's) possible with 802.3.
Examples are
TCP/IP ( say this is English)
UDP (French)
etc....
LV has built in VI's to take a message and convert it to the protocol (lanuage) you want and send it on it's way.
So my question to you once more is;
What protocol are you using?
Ben
