On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:46:42PM -0300, James Oakley wrote:
> On June 29, 2001 11:19 am, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:28:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I was frustrated by the available ways of hooking serial ports to the
> > > network, so I wrote my own. I figured people this list would have
> > > some use for something like this, so it's at
> > > http://ser2net.sourceforge.net
> >
> > Is this a COMx to terminal server wedge driver, or a
> > mini-terminal-server to serial port daemon?
>
> It's a daemon that allows one to telnet or create raw connections to serial
> ports. I immediately built RPMs and distributed them around the office here
> because I hate using Minicom to configure switches, etc. It's also
> potentially useful for debugging serial communications from software with a
> little modification. We do a lot of serial stuff, so I might try some weird
> setups.
It should have been obvious to me that it was for Linux; don't ask why
it wasn't. :-)
> The layout of the default install was kind of strange (to me, anyway), so I
> changed the spec file to stick the daemon in /usr/sbin instead of /bin and
> the man page in /usr/share/man/man8 instead of /man/man1. I also made it gzip
> the man page.
>
> Overall, I'm very happy with it, if you couldn't tell already. :-)*
Sounds like maybe. What *I* was looking for was a Windows wedgedriver
that would make remote telnet targets look like local physical serial
ports (to the extent that's possible, anyway).
Found one somewhere else, though.
The Internet is converging.
Cheers
-- jra
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