Can Labview be configured to use UDP/Multicast protocol?

[John Lum]

Yes, UDP is one of the natively-supported communications protocols.

Check the following Developer Zone tutorial for a UDP overview and a link to a LabVIEW example program that demonstrates multicast/spray:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzoneweb.nsf/opendoc?openagent&73E79CBA4F17700F862567AD00717059&cat=A671D9FE1C555C538625679300709756

Regards,
John Lum
National Instruments

[RGS]

Let me re-phrase the question, can I open a multicast socket with Labview?

[John Lum]

Sorry for confusing broadcast with multicast. I don't have any expertise in the multicast area, but I think I understand that you're asking about LabVIEW support for IGMP and the overhead associated with maintaining a multicast port.

I figure you can probably do a Web search as well as I can, but I found a reference to someone's 1994 Ph.D. thesis on multicast-enabling a LabVIEW application:

http://www-itg.lbl.gov/~deba/ALS.DCEE/quarterly_rpts/q496.html

Maybe this is a lead for example code and updates on more recent work in the area.

Regards,
John Lum
National Instruments