I am working on an application that needs to poll character devices that are physically located all over the place. Each device is attached to an embedded Linux system, and each is accessible through a character device in /dev.
SERVER | +--+---+------+------+ | | | | BOX1 BOX2 BOX3 BOX4 dev1 dev2 dev3 dev4 Before I create a custom server program, I was wondering if there was some network magic that I could sprinkle on the problem. Basically, from the server, I want to open several device files (dev1, dev2, dev3). These devices are actually located on other machines on the network, but I'd like them to appear as device files on my own machine and be accessible just like local character devices. Some ideas that popped into my head: - netcat - I hear that's the Swiss Army Knife for networks - access box1:/dev/dev1 via NFS (???) Is there some quick-n-dirty way to open a character device on a remote machine as if it were local? I bet someone has written a tool to do this, but I have no idea what to search for. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
