Many Arduino's with Ethernet shield to talk to pc

[Monkins]

Hi, is it possible to use the Ethernet shield for the arduino UNO and communicate to labview?

I've been searching the net and the only way I see I can do it is in c. I've written a few mcu projects in c for Freescale hc micro controller, but I'd like to just have a vi that runs on a base pc and monitors the io of many arduino boards on a network.

The code would be

Host pc logging

(arduino board, logging io ports and publishing to ethernet network,  reading rfid reader and reporting to network, driving LCD screen, and some basic digital output control)

I was considering using the arm module but this seems cheaper.

I'm thinking the only way would be to adapt the labview host program that uploads to the board to make it use the Ethernet board to do the comms instead of the USB-comm?

Kind regards.

Monkins

[Nathan_B.]

LIFA currently can only work via serial communication (usb, xbee, etc).  To make it work over ethernet would require creating the equivalent of LIFA from the ground up using network communication protocols.  This will also require new firmware.