Access to sockets other than TCP/UDP

[Mark_Yedinak]

It would be helpful if we could create raw IP sockets in order to have access to protocols other than TCP and UDP. This would open the door for LabVIEW to be used for general network testing. I would be fine if this extension meant the programmer was responsible for implementing the protocols. Simply having access to a raw IP socket would be a benefit.

[Lavezza]

Agree. My company has some custom protocols implemented in raw IP packets. Would be great if LV had a native way to read and create them.

[rolfk]

The problem with this is that only elevated applications may create and access raw sockets nowadays (actually since a long time already). If you want to avoid that you need to write an actual socket driver that gets loaded into the socket library (Winsock on Windows, Berkeley sockets on other platforms).