Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:28:17 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net> To: Norbert Koch <nkoch@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forward a tcp stream through rs232 Message-ID: <20060408142816.GA68561@catpipe.net> In-Reply-To: <200604081625.15039.nkoch@gmx.de> References: <200604081625.15039.nkoch@gmx.de>
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Norbert Koch (nkoch) writes: > > I know I could just use ppp, but the client side will be a windows > machine and I do not want to have the overhead of a complete > TCP/IP protocol on the serial line. And I also do not want to > have to configure IP addresses. > > Does anybody know about some quick and dirty solution for that? Yes, use PPP. Sorry, but the overhead of a "complete TCP/IP protocol" is negligeable with modern modems, especially if you have header compression, MNP and other V* compressions. You could arguably use SLIP, which is lighter weight. Not wanting to configure IP addresses: just give your tunnel 127.1.0.1 and 127.1.0.2 or whatever. (In practice you could even avoid that and just route subnets via the endpoints of the tunnel). > I could but do not want to re-invent a wheel, which surely has > been invented more than once in the last century;-) Then use PPP.
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