From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Vodall WA7NWP Subject: Re: Serial extenion cable... Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:13:29 -0800 Message-ID: <44106239.1000902@jnos.org> References: <440FBEBF.9020908@nwp.ampr2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Bill wrote: > > >>Sorry to bug folks again if I brought this up last summer, but the need >>for an "serial tunnel" has again come up. >> > Answered in Xastir FAQ, question 4.20. "netcat" is probably your > best bet. Faq is at: Netcat puts a serial or parallel port on an IP channel. Useful but not what I needed. 'remserial' from the Xastir faq was the solution and it's working. http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/ Here's a packet from the remote YYDIGI Linux box as heard on the 'listen' screen of my miniItx. --- axyy: fm KB7UVC-3 to APW251 via OLY* KOPEAK* WIDE2 ctl UIv id=F0(Text) len 37 08:51:11 0000 Mason County WA EOC Computer On-LineM --- More notes on the wiki: http://wiki.ampr2.net/jnos/RemoteSerial Thanks for the bandwidth. Always good to start a day with a step forward. 73 Bill - WA7NWP