On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:20:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > A: No. > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:53:07PM -0400, Jay York wrote: > > Can you say, "telnet?" Can you say, "pty?" > > I might be totally missing something, but how to you send line speed and > flow control settings over telnet? Even with a pty, you can't do that. > > Here's a bit more information. This device is a box, that you plug a > ethernet cable into, and a serial port comes out of. On the remote end, > you connect to the device, and it needs to look like you are directly > controling that serial port, line settings and flow control and all. Oh, and some of these devices are 1 ethernet, multiple serial ports, requiring the protocol to support multiple endpoints on the same TCP connection. Again, just like usb-serial devices. thanks, greg k-h