From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 1 9:21:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles135.castles.com [208.214.165.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB5C155DA for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19958; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:12:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903011712.JAA19958@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jamesvv@ibm.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a serial mux? (Serial <-> FreeBSD <-> WAN <-> FreeBSD <-> Serial) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:47:26 GMT." <000301be63d9$475a35e0$17c25c8b@javlaptop.dms-corp.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:12:10 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there a way to use FreeBSD as a serial mux? What I want to do is > replace an existing leased line that is connected to serial multiplexers > with a more modern WAN (TCP/IP) connection. The downside is that I still > need to provide the serial muxing connection. So really what I need is a > way to remotely run some terminals that are proprietary enough to not have > emulation, as in serial in one server and serial out the other server. This > seems useful enough that I would be surprised is someone has not already > done it (without requiring some expensive terminal servers!) Any thoughts or > suggestions are appreciated. A serial mux application is so trivial that anyone setting something like this likely to just sit down and write the damn thing. If it's beyond your reach, I'm sure that there are plenty of people that would be happy to roll such an animal for you. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message