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From: garvey@johnny5.uucp (Joe Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Making terminal servers just like internal serial ports
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.013603.18407@johnny5.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 91 01:36:03 GMT
Organization: J5 Research -- Bothell, Wa.
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It seems to me that with all the Sun accessories that live off the SCSI
bus, that someone in the terminal server market should be doing something
similar.

I'd have loved to have a terminal server, where I had actual device files
on my system to address individual serial ports.

It seems to me that you could do this with psuedo-ttys and a daemon that
monitored the slave side of these devices.

The real problem would come when you needed so set the baud rate or
handshaking mode. The actual flow of bits would be pretty simple.

Why doesn't anyone do this? Is there a protocol under developement?

I have seen an add for the Annex III. It claims something like this...
anyone know more?


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