<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I have use the digi ports over the last few years they work very well, but for the money building your own is better.<br>Real serial cards are good. 2 or 4 port cards are easy to work with and well supported. <br><br>In the past few years I've user usb serial ports to build up to 8 port with no issues. I have used voyage linux on cf and usb flash drives to build serial consoles for my server. <br><br>I will be happy to talk with anyone about how I've used serial in an industrial environment.<br><br>Nick<br>7 3 4 6 7 8 64 35<br> <br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> DK <wplug@curlynoodle.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> General user list <wplug@wplug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, October 23, 2009 11:27:18 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [wplug] Serial Server Software<br></font><br>
Hello Everyone,<br><br>I have project which requires RS232 communication to several<br>industrial control devices. My first thought was to use one or more<br>serial server appliances, similar to:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/external-device-servers/mss4.html">http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/external-device-servers/mss4.html</a></span><br>or<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.digi.com/products/serialservers/portserverts816.jsp">http://www.digi.com/products/serialservers/portserverts816.jsp</a></span><br><br>However, these servers cost upward of $600.<br><br>I have sitting on the shelf a spare PCI card which provide eight RS232<br>ports. My idea was to use this card with a small box PC with Ethernet<br>to provide similar function as a serial server appliance.<br><br>Does anyone know of a method or FOSS project which provides serial to<br>Ethernet server on Linux or other
OS?<br><br>Dave<br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:wplug@wplug.org" href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">wplug@wplug.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug">http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug</a></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>