Serial to Ethernet

[arne]

Paul Wardell wrote:
>
> Does anyone now of aneasy method of porting raw serial data from a com port
> over to ethernet or to be shoved out on the internet? I have a 16 port
> Portmaster but did not want to add another piece of hardware if I can do it
> with my existing linux box.

It depends on what type of connection you want.
If you want to allow anyone to connect to your box and read and write
data from/to a serial port, you can write a deamon (server process)
which listens to your serial ports and then sends it to a socket. You'd
also need a thread which does the inverse, if you want bi-directional
communication.

If you simply want to send data from your tty ports to some socket
somewhere on your network, it's even easier. Perl is the perfect tool
for these things.

There's also devices like IOLANs, which have 16 serial ports and connect
to a 10Mbit ethernet. I don't know what a Portmaster does.

Arne

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