19 Nov
2003
19 Nov
'03
4:14 a.m.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bob Armstrong wrote:
I want a little gizmo with an RS-232/DB25 on one
side and a RJ45/10baseT
on the other. It should speak TCP/IP, specifically telnet, and convert it
to RS-232. Kind of like a print server, except for telnet/RS232 instead of
lpd/Centronics.
The idea is to use it to put some of my old computers on the network
by plugging it into their console serial ports.
There are enough microprocessors around today with embedded TCP/IP
stacks that such a thing would not be that hard to build, but it
sounds like the kind of thing that somebody else must have already
done.
Can anybody give me any pointers to such a gizmo?
What you want is a terminal server. You can probably pick up a very cheap
Livingston PortMaster from eBay or something.
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