On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:53, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
> Anybody have a straightforward HOWTO that explains what's
> necessary to mke a Linux box act like a cheap serial-port
> concentrator, something like an Annex or Cyclades box?
> 
> In other words, I want to rig SystemA such that it has a
> serial console with that serial port wired over to SystemB
> such that I can say something like
> 
>    telnet SystemB somePort
> 
> ...from SystemC and be connected directly to the console
> of SystemA

I suspect you can just use netcat (nc). Its on most Linux distributions.
Things like stty (to set line speed) and the serial ioctls won't work
though. You'll need a "real" program to do that.

--Bruce

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