Hi Eric, Yes, the way you diagramed it is what I mean.
What I wanted was a mote connected to a PC that would look to any Linux application (e.g. minicom) like a serial port and would be connected to over a radio link to a similar mote and PC appearing as a serial port to any arbitrary Linux application. Like the serial line replacement mode available on the XBee radios from Digi. There the packetizing and retries are handled transparently on the XBee module. Or another example would be the Lantronix Matchport serial to Wifi module. Steve On 7/27/11, Eric Decker <cire...@gmail.com> wrote: > Huh? > > First you talk about a serial line replacement and then you talk about about > using the serial forwarder. > > I'm confused as to just what exactly you are talking about. > > So I think what you are talking about is something like.... > > PC ---- serial --- mote ---- radio --- mote --- serial --- PC. > > > Is that what you are talking about? > > Sure there is a way to do this, you figure out how you want them to talk > and then implement it. > > Look at how motes can talk via radio, what the characteristics of that > communications path is, ie. packet size, packet format, flow control etc. > > And then you figure the same thing out for the PC to mote across the serial > link. And what that means for what the program needs to do running on the > mote. > > But why are you doing this? A bettter place to start is what problem are > you trying to solve and is it worth the effort to implement the way I've > described. > > Frankly it seems odd to me. why bother? > > eric > i've done networking for years. > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:24 PM, steve <sgul...@wildlandsecurity.org> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I would like to create a serial line replacement between 2 PCs using 2 >> motes. >> Can anyone suggest a way? >> I was think of something like a serial forwarder attached to each of the >> PCs >> >> Thanks >> Steve >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tinyos-help mailing list >> Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu >> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help >> > > > > -- > Eric B. Decker > Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help