Re: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:07:13PM +0100, Max Lock wrote: > Robert Waldner wrote: > > > > I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-) > > Nope, I really want to tunnel the port, I want to have > /dev/virtual-ttyS1 and be able to open that device and read/write to it. > the

RE: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread romeu
gt; debian-user 05/10/00 09:56 cc: Assunto: RE: Serial port tunnel...

RE: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Max Lock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port > over IP and make it appear as a local device on a remote machine. Closest I know of is what you probably found, in the Linux Modem Sharing mini-howto. Allows you to connect to a remote mo

Re: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread Max Lock
Robert Waldner wrote: > > I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-) Nope, I really want to tunnel the port, I want to have /dev/virtual-ttyS1 and be able to open that device and read/write to it. then have that data tunneled across a network to the real /dev/ttyS1 on the

Re: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread Robert Waldner
I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-) l2tp is the protocol you´re looking for, l2tpd is the only implementation for *n?x I´m aware of http://www.marko.net/l2tp/>, although at the moment it seems to only support PPP as layer-2-protocol. hth, &rw On Thu, 05 Oct 20

Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread Max Lock
Hi folks, I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port over IP and make it appear as a local device on a remote machine. Does anyone have any ideas where it may be located. I've been through freshmeat and there's software to forward to an IP socket, by not a device file. -Cheer