On Friday, December 20, 2013 10:17 AM, 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: Actually, no-- I do not really need a physical "port". It could all be virtual. (sorry about previous 'top post'. Yahoo email has "improved" their interface making it hard to know what's going on with the thread) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
