How to enable netconsole?

[mikets]

I have posted this in the General Forum but there was no response. I figure I may get some here.

I have never used netconsole before. I have been using a serial cable. But netconsole sounds cool, so I want to try it. But I can't get it to work. I FTP'd into the cRIO, found the ni-rt.ini file at the root folder as expected, added the "NetConsole.out;" at the beginning such as the line below.

EarlyStartupLibraries=NetConsole.out;vxfpsup.out;tsengine.out;

After rebooted the robot, I saw the COM console spitted out the following:

Loading LVRT...
* Loading EarlyStartupLibraries: NetConsole

So, it looks like it loaded the NetConsole server. After this, the COM console went quiet so it looks like all the output has been redirected from then on. But nothing showed up in the NetConsole client. The IP address box did not show anything. I even typed the robot's IP address there but as soon as I hit enter, it cleared out and nothing happened. Is there a trick that I missed? I checked my laptop's firewall and netconsole.exe is allowed to go through. Anything else I should check?

Thanks.