[PRJ007] tty over TCP driver needed

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Oct 17 23:27:07 UTC 2007


On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:20:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:53:07PM -0400, Jay York wrote:
> > Can you say, "telnet?"  Can you say, "pty?"
> 
> I might be totally missing something, but how to you send line speed and
> flow control settings over telnet?  Even with a pty, you can't do that.
> 
> Here's a bit more information.  This device is a box, that you plug a
> ethernet cable into, and a serial port comes out of.  On the remote end,
> you connect to the device, and it needs to look like you are directly
> controling that serial port, line settings and flow control and all.

Oh, and some of these devices are 1 ethernet, multiple serial ports,
requiring the protocol to support multiple endpoints on the same TCP
connection.  Again, just like usb-serial devices.

thanks,

greg k-h



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