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Marco Masotti wrote:
> 
> I would need to set up a listener service, so that opening up a
> connection to a given socket, the data stream is diverted to a given
> serial comms port.
> 
> Is that application available?

Try looking at the ports collection, for something called 'netcat'
(/usr/ports/net/netcat) - this can be run either stand-alone or from inetd,
and should do what you want... (it diverts standard input/output to run over
TCP sockets or UDP)

Regards,

Karl

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