Symulatory Overhead Xuipc

[saitekx450]

I currently run my pit with a base sim of FSX, I am looking to migrate this over to X-Plane.
Most of my pit uses OC Cards, the main element where I am stumbling on is to interface my overhead, which is symulatory using FSBUS Classic cards, this is running on a client machine, system logic is PM Systems, on same client as overhead. I run a piece of software supplied with the overhead which communicates with panel via serial/USB conversion.

Currently I cannot seem to get this element to communicate with X-Plane over the network.

Any help advice on this would be much appreciated.

ooops, 2 days later, after changing my cat 5 cabling and switch, it was simply I.P. addresses, between client and  server, that will teach me to take the back off the T.V before checking the fuse