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On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Mogens: > > Thanks for reply! > > Here's the actual scenario: > > > > I have a system running an application which wants to get its data from > a physical serial port. My goal is to provide this data from a network > connection, and ~trick~ the application into thinking it's still getting it > from the serial port. Technically it is still on the serial port, but the > data is arriving via TCP. > > So, it's all on the same machine. The idea would be for the machine to > run an application, pointed at the serial port. My netcat would receive > the data being pushed to it on a TCP port, and redirect it to the serial > port. > > Do you need a real serial port involved at all? It sounds like what > you really want is a linux device that looks like a tty in terms of > accepting ioctl's from a program that thinks it is a serial port, but > actually accepts a tcp connection. I suppose you could rig a > loopback cable and actually have a separate program writing to the > serial port with the loopback returning it to your listening > application. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
