From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 3 07:07:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302F3106566C for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 07:07:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emss.mail@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41AA8FC08 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 07:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by weyx56 with SMTP id x56so3489718wey.13 for ; Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:07:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:x-virus-scanned:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references :user-agent:x-operating-system:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qfQL1P2UfRFciE/KzIBSNORMwoSBfyhnBptAAcBJrVY=; b=S9BpsLHHxwC9jTClPSkzeUlskhCamJlOwyFh3C0UyxNJs7S4CkfOKPG/0o80MVIE0G WwVgWhfWCDi2jYZMhQu6ih0Eu921CEDSfGBz12XT157q9Ep2FCZECMmsbEBmKfmfLnmv xGYGJMhBofcBVaV2bwCo3HXvkPtBwJf5v4N5R+uQ+Oeiihep+bIhWxizgAD12M/R9HPd LVmRyIYLUUJO3qb577D4Lk+w+uIhDkR93upQ372Y693ED7QFCDwEoi69pPMpaeziAg+I mXpcbXCReiCzXTtHFf+lilv739dP+MDQIJV092vNQhSyoFYWwzySTGKaKki8BbWLfXV1 /Gnw== Received: by 10.180.84.164 with SMTP id a4mr21091146wiz.12.1346656067417; Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org (LCaen-151-92-21-48.w217-128.abo.wanadoo.fr. [217.128.200.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q4sm17635804wix.9.2012.09.03.00.07.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Eric Masson Received: from srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B447CCF0DA; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:07:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at interne.associated-bears.org Received: from srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org ([127.0.0.1]) by srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org (srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RpduJyi4cTJZ; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:07:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D022CCF0D5; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:07:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Eric Masson To: Victor Sudakov In-Reply-To: <20120903030217.GA79339@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> (Victor Sudakov's message of "Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:02:17 +0700") References: <20120903030217.GA79339@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 amd64 Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:07:39 +0200 Message-ID: <86wr0binyc.fsf@srvbsdfenssv.interne.associated-bears.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:07:49 -0000 Victor Sudakov writes: Hi, > There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be > accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone > have a success story for such a scenario? Yes, sredird on the FreeBSD box & NetDialout from PCMicro on the Windows box. > There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are > there any (freeware) Windows virtual COM port drivers compatible > therewith? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_port_redirector#Open_source_solutions com0com Project's com2tcp may be what you're expecting. Regards Éric Masson -- l'anarchie, c'est pt'etre pas genial comme mode de gouvernement, mais c'est mieux que pas de gouvernement du tout. -+- Kevin in -+- Ni Root, ni Maître. -+-