Telnet to RS232 Gizmo?

From: Robert Krten <root_at_parse.com>
Date: Wed Nov 19 12:05:59 2003

Bob Armstrong sez...
>
>
> 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?

It's called a "terminal server" and many of these things exist.
They generally have lots of serial ports; 8, 16, 24, and up.
You might even be able to find one on ePay...

Cheers,
-RK

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