I am looking for a piece of software that performs a certain function,
basically tunnel a serial port connection through tcp/ip. It should
be some sort of driver program w/ a client and server. The server
would be run on a computer that has a physical serial port. The
driver on the server takes this serial port and provides a TCP port to
connect to. A corresponding driver on a client computer would emulate
a serial port but actually connect via tcp to the server computer.
The net result being the appearance of a real serial port on the
client computer without the need for a physical connection. This is
so native programs that use a serial port can be run without
modification to use a serial port on another computer.
My question is
1) What software, if any, exists already that does this, I am
especially looking for open source solutions that ideally support both
Windows/NIX, but proprietary offerings will do as well.
2) If no such software exists already, since this problem has been
thought of before Im sure, are there existing
standards/guidelines/protocols for such a thing (a la RFC).
note: I am aware of stand alone serial port -> ethernet boxes. |
