Re: serial to IP adapter?

[email protected] (Iain A F Fleming) Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:49:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
..I'd rather be coding ASM! writes:
 > 
 > I suspect by the sound of it, he wants a central machine with multiple 
 > serial ports hanging off it to control 'n' machines. But, perhaps I've 
 > mis-understood also.

What used to be called a "terminal server", like the old Spider Atom,
where you could telnet to a port on a server, and be presented with a
connection to whatever was hanging off a particular serial onthe
server.

You can get similar functionality with "termnet".

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