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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:02:17 +0700
From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
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Subject: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts
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Colleagues,

There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be
accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone
have a success story for such a scenario?

There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are
there any (freeware) Windows virtual COM port drivers compatible
therewith?

Maybe some Windows drivers for hardware console servers (like Moxa)
would work with tits etc?

Thanks a lot for any advice.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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