From 6659210b9da95459418c8b86250dc6e84c44dc6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ehaupt Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:43:57 +0000 Subject: Add remserial, a communication bridge between a TCP/IP network port and a character-oriented device. --- comms/remserial/pkg-descr | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 comms/remserial/pkg-descr (limited to 'comms/remserial/pkg-descr') 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/ -- cgit