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| author | ehaupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-01-05 17:43:57 +0800 |
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| committer | ehaupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-01-05 17:43:57 +0800 |
| commit | 6659210b9da95459418c8b86250dc6e84c44dc6b (patch) | |
| tree | 0ca3b1252cc391f110ef536c7d13748ba393f092 /comms/remserial/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 39ac7c5b5029b89f79331cc0e819f534ca64df5c (diff) | |
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Add remserial, a communication bridge between a TCP/IP network port and a
character-oriented device.
Diffstat (limited to 'comms/remserial/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | comms/remserial/pkg-descr | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/comms/remserial/pkg-descr b/comms/remserial/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f9936e5e3629 --- /dev/null +++ b/comms/remserial/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Remserial acts as a communications bridge between a TCP/IP network port and a +device such as a serial port. Any character-oriented /dev device will work. + +The program can operate as a server accepting network connections from other +machines, or as a client, connecting to remote machine that is running the +remserial program or some other program that accepts a raw network connection. +The network connection passes data as-is, there is no control protocol over the +network socket. + +Multiple copies of the program can run on the same computer at the same time +assuming each is using a different network port and device. + +WWW: http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/ |