A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:05:36PM -0700, Mathew Cucuzella wrote: > I think telnet/pty is the reverse of the solution (kind of). It provides a > network interface to a remote serial port, giving the remote end the > appearance of being on a real tty. We are looking for a serial interface to > a serial interface, with the network in between. > > It might be possible to write a driver that provides the local serial > interface on one side )possibly ptys), and uses the telnet protocol on the > other. This would require the remote box to support telnetd. I'm not > suggesting this is a good idea. Neither would I, and how would line settings work here? I think the protocol on the device is already fixed, as they have working drivers for other operating systems, and would probably not want to change them just for Linux :) > An important question here, is what does the remote box support as its TCP > interface? I don't know, that is in the specs for the device, I haven't looked at them yet. thanks, greg k-h
