Sending packets to powerboard

[dmc2]

Hey Everyone, 

I'm new to labview. I am currently trying to send and receive packets wrapped in a few bytes to a powerboard to simulate data communications. I am not sure where to start. Would anyone know what type of communications did would be called so I may search for examples? (i.e. I dont really think these would be TCP packets)

Thanks 

[zenthoef]

I'm going to have admit I'm a little bit ignorant here... What is a "powerboard"?

What kind of communication protocol does this device use? Once that is known, it can be detirmined how you should communicate with it using LabVIEW.

[dmc2]

Well to my understanding a powerboard will supply power to other components connected to it, so labview is supposed to send packets to control power that's being sent out. 

I think I'm working with a protocol written in C. Thus i'm supposed to implement it in labview.

[zenthoef]

What I mean by protocol is... Do you connect it via serial port, USB, ethernet, other...?