Terminal server? (Kinda.)

[Drew Van Zandt]

There are RS-232 to Ethernet bridges as embedded devices, many of which have
(at least) Windows drivers that make them show up as regular old serial
ports.

http://www.barcode-manufacturer.com/serial-ethernet/

<http://www.barcode-manufacturer.com/serial-ethernet/>We use Moxas in some
of our industrial systems; they appear to also have Linux drivers.  No need
to reinvent, no need to maintain codebase.

http://www.moxa.com/support/download.aspx?d_id=1662

--DTVZ

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:

> Hey, all.  My company's about to open up several locations across the
> country.  We're going to have cash registers on-site -- good ol' RS-232
> connections.  We're also getting software that can talk to these
> computers.
>
> Now, I know RS-232 is fairly robust, but it strikes me that even it might
> lose signal integrity over 3K miles.  What I'm thinking about (if anyone
> has better ideas, please talk up!) is something like this:
>
> [Register] <- RS-232-to-USB -> [Wall Wart] <- VPN -> [Home office computer]
>
> So, as I see it, there are two minor issues:
>
> 1) Making the Wall Wart (e.g.,
> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/100-Linux-wallwart-launches/ ) act
> as a terminal server, and
>
> 2) Having some sort of virtual RS-232 adapter on the Windows system
>
> Anyone got any suggestions?  Done anything like this?  Etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
>
>
>
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