Send and Receive data Through Ethernet Port?

[$agar]

Hi, 

     I am trying to acquire details of the LAN/Ethernet details from PC through LabVIEW.Like we get the system date&time,Serial Port etc, is it possible to get the LAN Details of my PC Through LabVIEW.My aim is to sebd and Receive command through Ethernet Port.

[Akiel]

Which lan details are you after? for some of them calling a dos command via system exec.vi then interpretting the output may help

[$agar]

I want to send a command through ethernnet port for recieving the data.Which one should i use client.vi ore server.vi in TCP/IP Communication???

[Akiel · Accepted solution]

Last time i did it i used the tcp pallete. (i go ctrl+space for the quick drop menu then type tcp.) open a conection to the network device then use tcp read/write as appropriate. there are examples as well that can be quite useful