Tcp/ip communication with LabVIEW

Does anyone have experience building an application with LabVIEW that
communicates over a socket? I new to LV, but it appears that the
application I have in mind is possible. Specifically, the LV
application would open a socket (port and IP known ahead of time) and
send a character to that socket. Depending on the character sent, the
application on the other end (a UNIX process) would send back a one
integer value to indicate the number of packets to expect. The LV
application would next need to parse each packet for such things as the
packet length, data length and so forth and then distribute those data
to appropriate sub-processes. The header value types are integer,
double, byte and character. The data values are all 4-
byte integers.
The sending code (on the UNIX side) was written in C. The aggregate
throughput is relatively low; no more than 2,000 bytes per second,
including packet headers.
If I can get this to work, the results would represent a significant
cost savings over competing alternatives. As a federal employee, I'm
always looking for the most cost effective solutions.
Thanks.
-Robert
Basically, I'm just looking for confirmation that this sort of thing is
possible with LV. And, I'd like to get a better idea of how hard it
would be to do.
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Hi everyone,i am currently trying to communicate with two computers at the moment using TCP/IP.I have done a simple server and client VI but the server doesnt seem to be writing the string im trying to send and it also gives an error message
Error 1 occurred at TCP Write in Server.vi
Possible reason(s):
LabVIEW: An input parameter is invalid. For example if the input is a path, the path might contain a character not allowed by the OS such as ? or @.
Please find attached the simple server and client VIs i have done.can you help me?
Thanks
Osowoaji
Attachments:
Server.vi ‏13 KB
Client.vi ‏13 KB

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