Bob,
I use an old 3Com CS/3100 for this. They are available on ePay, here's one
under $10 (currently)
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From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Bob Armstrong
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:32 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Telnet to RS232 Gizmo?
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?
Thanks,
Bob Armstrong