Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:48:41 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Wing Tim <twchim1@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Data sent to serial port Message-ID: <3B6A5759.F24EA3C1@i-clue.de> References: <F2111XvpFVjCRGryWtI00000003@hotmail.com>
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Wing Tim wrote: > > Dear all, > I'm just trying an experiment on FreeBSD 4.2 Release. In the experiment, I > tried to transmit all the data got from the ethernet card to the serial port > so that another device can get all these data by connecting to the serial > port. However, I really don't know how this can be done. Anyone has > suggestions to me? If you want to connect two computers via serial line, have a look at slip(8) or ppp(8). If you want to mirror the traffic from the ethernet NIC to the serial line, there will be problems: While even the slowest ethernet will receive data at 10MBit/s, serial I/O chips can transmit at 115kBit/s max.(i.e. roughly 0,1MBit/s.) The speed difference makes mirroring ethernet traffic on serial i/o, say, interesting. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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