Wow Bob, I figured you to be someone who subscribed to Circuit Cellar. They
always have a number of boards advertised, some of which do what you want.
In a quick flip through the adds, I found these:
http://www.taltech.com who advertises a RS232 to TCP/IP product, but in
looking at their web site, it isn't clear if this is just a software
product, or what.
http://www.rabbitsemiconductor.com who has a number of hardware and software
packages available, some of which I am sure can be used to do what you want.
http://www.lantronix.com/products/eds/msslite/ who makes a full TCP/IP server
device which is contained in an RJ45 connector. I think that this may have
been discussed on this mail list before...
--tom
At 08:31 AM 11/19/2003 -0800, you 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.
>
> 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
Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 12:00:17 GMT