Telnet to RS232 Gizmo?

From: Patrick Rigney <patrick_at_evocative.com>
Date: Wed Nov 19 11:40:26 2003

Bob,

I use an old 3Com CS/3100 for this. They are available on ePay, here's one
under $10 (currently)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Bob Armstrong
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:32 AM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Telnet to RS232 Gizmo?
>
>
>
> I want a little gizmo with an RS-232/DB25 on one side and a RJ45/10baseT
> on the other. It should speak TCP/IP, specifically telnet, and convert it
> to RS-232. Kind of like a print server, except for telnet/RS232
> instead of
> lpd/Centronics.
>
> The idea is to use it to put some of my old computers on the network
> by plugging it into their console serial ports.
>
> There are enough microprocessors around today with embedded TCP/IP
> stacks that such a thing would not be that hard to build, but it
> sounds like the kind of thing that somebody else must have already
> done.
>
> Can anybody give me any pointers to such a gizmo?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Armstrong
>
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