From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 11:27:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBD71065670 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 11:27:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uffe@uffe.org) Received: from mail.starion.dk (mx0.starion.dk [93.162.70.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 765AD8FC1A for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 11:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3922 invoked by uid 1004); 21 May 2012 11:27:31 -0000 Message-ID: <4FBA25DE.4050500@uffe.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 13:24:14 +0200 From: Uffe Jakobsen X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; DSN=0; uuencode=0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: USB over IP X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 11:27:00 -0000 Hi, On 2012-05-21 12:46, Daniel Braniss wrote: > I need to control some lab equipment with several usb based controllers > (mostly serial) and was wondering if it can be done over IP, there is such a > thing called usbip, but couldn't find what 'server' is needed. > all the boxes I found are not cheep, but worse, only provide binaries > for windows, or linux. I'm not entirely sure about your setup - you write usb based controllers - and then mostly serial... I know it is not strictly speaking usb over ip - but did you look at RFC 2217 ? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2217 There are several projects supporting RFC 2217: http://ser2net.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/sercd/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyclades-serial/ "ser2net" and "sredird" are in FreeBSD ports: http://www.freshports.org/comms/ser2net/ http://www.freshports.org/comms/sredird/ /Uffe