Telnet to RS232 Gizmo?

From: Kirill Levchenko <kirill_at_lava.net>
Date: Wed Nov 19 11:54:32 2003

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 08:31 AM, Bob Armstrong wrote:

> 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.

You can, of course, rig a PC you may have lying around. Another
solution is a terminal server, as someone suggested. These usually have
a whole bunch of serial ports, 16 and up. The Xylogics Annex is an
example, you can probably find some on eBay.

Kirill
Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 11:54:32 GMT