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From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: USB over IP
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> 
> 
> 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, the word serial is confusing, what I meant is that the USB connection
(which could be a mass-storage, camera, etc) is in my case serial (ie rs232)

> I know it is not strictly speaking usb over ip - but did you look at RFC 
> 2217 ?
yes, but it's not relevant to what I'm looking for, I want to send/receive
the USB protocol over IP. I only mentioned the serial (rs232) because I don't
need speed (as opposed to a camera, audio, etc)

cheers,
	danny