Re: Serial Port tunnel over a LAN (TCP/IP) ?

From: 187 (bigal187_at_invalid.rx.eastcoasttfc.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:31:58 -0700

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2004-09-13, 187 <bigal187@invalid.rx.eastcoasttfc.com> wrote:
>> Hello, I want to be able to access a Serial Port on my Linux machine
>> from my Win XP (as the XP has no Serial Ports.)
>>
>> Is there anyway to tunnel a Serial Port over a network (like TCP/IP)
>> ? In other words have virtual Serial over LAN?
>
> Sure. Run sredir on the Linux machine, and then get an RFC-2217
> compliant client or port-redirector for your XP machine.

I had already been searching google inside and out before posting,
haven't bene able to fidn any programs like that (thus my reason for
posting :-)

Any guidence to good client programs would be very appreciated.

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