Abort runing READ TCP VI

[HaemoPhil]

In my compiled application I'm using the Read TCP VI with a 30 minutes timeout constant. This works fine as during 30 minutes if not data activity is present on the port, the connection is still active as needed. But now the user should be able to abort this timeout, mean to abort the running read TCP vi, without aborting all the application... How can we implement such a function.

Thanks for your advice

Regards

HaemoPhil

[tst]

Don't use a long timeout. Instead, use a short timeout (100-1000 ms), and use a shift register to count the number of consecutive timeout errors. Once this is larger than a certain number, abort the connection. If there was no error, reset the counter.

[HaemoPhil]

Thank you TST... that was the right thing to do... 🙂

[JeanPierre]

If you don't need the connection to stay alive, another solution is to close the connection. The waiting Read TCP node will resume immediatly.