Image processing on the driver station laptop

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AndyB871 --

Yes, I'm very familiar with networking. (I'm a mentor, not a student.) I had assumed since the rules said port 1130 was the only one available for Operator station to Robot communication that they meant it and therefore the driver station must use that port. (I tried reading the DrvrStn COM vi, but the important stuff all seems to be buried in the opaque NETCOM library.)

Having that port available for our own purpose will make this much easier. I was getting ready to Wireshark this to see what was going on, so thanks for saving me the trouble!

Chris --

Yes, you cannot assume that subsequent UDP packets will simply replace earlier UDP packets that have not yet been read. Most operating system network stacks (and I presume that would include VxWorks) helpfully provide a certain amount of buffering to held several packets. If your packets are really short, then the network stack will hold more of them for you!

I wouldn't switch to TCP -- that just adds more overhead. The answer is either to throttle (would require back traffic), or have your code on the cRIO flush packets to catch up.