[U-Boot-Users] Off-topic: Serial port redirection

[Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@smiths-aerospace.com>]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <44EC85D9.9050101@schweigstill.de> you wrote:
>>> I've recently become a fan of serproxy.  Serproxy is a daemon that acts
>>> as a telnet proxy from a TCP port to a serial port on a linux box.  This
>>> abstracts the serial port on my lab linux machine to be a network device
>>> that I can connect to from anyplace.  It opens up a lot of nice
>>> possibilities and I don't have to deal with the indignities of minicom.
>> Oh, that's very interesting. I have been searching for such a program
>> for quite a long time but most of these programs have some problems.
>> Some of them cause file transfer timeouts, others need special software.
> 
> See also tserver (= Terminalserver):
> ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/tools/tserver-0.17-3.src.rpm
> 
>> Do you know if there is also a tool available which maps a COM port on
>> a M$ Windows PC to a TCP or TELNET port?
> 
> Try porting tserver...
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Maybe I'm missing something, but there is a Windows binary on the 
serproxy site
http://www.lspace.nildram.co.uk/freeware.html

gvb