I feel like a Raspberry Pi or similar would fit the
bill for this
nicely.
Yes, but it wouldn't be ready to go ;). I would need to find a raspberry pi with a
built in serial port and a flavor Linux already loaded on it plus configuration. There are
plenty of SERVER devices out there (i.e. take data from the serial console of a device and
present it over the LAN via TCP/IP and accessible by Telnet, SSH, even HTTP) so I am
hoping someone has a client device as well.
-Ali