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From: robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Mapping ETHERNET to COM(n)
Message-ID: <315@pvab.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 21:00:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: pvab.315
References: <142@pbseps.UUCP> <224@slxsys.specialix.co.uk> <173@cix.UUCP>
Organization: ERBE Data AB, Sweden
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In article <173@cix.UUCP>, dj@cix.UUCP (Dj Walker Morgan Systems Manager CIX) writes:

> >From article <142@pbseps.UUCP>, by rdp@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman):
> > I am looking for a program/patch/utility that would allow me to
> > use IBM-PC software (i.e. Crossstalk, MS-Windows, Symphony etc.)
> > with a psuedo port on an ethernet instead of the expected 
> > standard serial port COM(1,2).  I want to "talk" with a tcp/ip
> > host (running NFS if that matters).

> Now, this rings a bell ..... You won't be able to do it in software *BUT*
> I remember Novell were hacking away on a board which sat where Com1: or
> Com2: would sit and did it's best to pretend to be a Com port.

You'll be able to do this in software. In fact, there's a company who sells
something they call PC-NFS-Rx, which is Sun's PC-NFS (currently R3.0)
bundled with a TELNET driver and your choice of one of the Reflection
terminal emulators. The info I have says they're doing this by emulating
a physical COM port... They put the port in loopback mode or somesuch.
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Robert Claeson, ERBE DATA AB, P.O. Box 77, S-175 22 Jarfalla, Sweden
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