Data Socket Dropped Packets

[B@frontiergeo]

I am developing a program which uses data sockets. I want to pass all the data acquired from one to the other for processing. However, I was wondering how forgiving the Data Socket is to dropped packets as the link up I might have to use may not be super reliable. Basicly, I need to know if the data socket is going to spit out an error if the connection drops for a moment.

Regards,
B

[bburress]

Hey B,
    Datasocket uses handshaking, so it will be as reliable as TCP would be over the same connection.  That being said, it will also slow down just like TCP with added network traffic. 

Message Edited by Brian B on 02-12-2007 06:51 PM

[Rick_F_Foster]

Is there any way to connect to the Datasocket Server and retreive statistics like Drop Packets remotely?

[kgarrett]

Hey Rick, 

This is a bit of a labor-intensive answer, but it will help you with any future DataSocket programming you want to do. Read through this DataSocket Tutorial to get started. You will probably also need some information on configuring a DataSocket server after you read through the tutorial. Hope this helps! 

Cheers,

kgarrett

[Rick_F_Foster]

Not exactly what I was looking for (I already have a datasocket server configured and up and running successfully). What I was looking for was a way to query the datasocket server itself for the number of packets it had recorded as being dropped (You can see this statistic on the data socket server diagnostic panel for each data type)

[MrQuestion]

This post is only 6 years old, so I'm sure somebody has a good answer to this by now.

I would really like to query the datasocket server for the statistics information that you would see in the 'DataSocket Server Diagnostics' page

As seen in the image below.

Is there anyway to query the server for this data?

[tolltroll]

Hi MrQuestion,

Since this post is six years old and hasn't seen any recent activity, I'd recommend you create a new thread to get more visibility from the LabVIEW community. Perhaps you can link this thread in your new post for reference.

Nick

Applications Engineer