[wplug] Serial Server Software
nathan embery
nembery at met-net.com
Fri Oct 23 13:35:36 EDT 2009
DK wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have project which requires RS232 communication to several
> industrial control devices. My first thought was to use one or more
> serial server appliances, similar to:
>
> http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/external-device-servers/mss4.html
> or
> http://www.digi.com/products/serialservers/portserverts816.jsp
>
> However, these servers cost upward of $600.
>
> I have sitting on the shelf a spare PCI card which provide eight RS232
> ports. My idea was to use this card with a small box PC with Ethernet
> to provide similar function as a serial server appliance.
>
> Does anyone know of a method or FOSS project which provides serial to
> Ethernet server on Linux or other OS?
>
> Dave
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I've used socat in the past to do something almost exactly like this.
This is pretty much what you need:
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html
good luck,
Nate
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