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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Exporting Serial Ports
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 07:56:27 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <1i00suINNenp@shelley.u.washington.edu> derry@hardy.u.washington.edu (Derry Lyons) writes:
- >Maybe a silly question, but can a serial port be exported to another machine?
-
- If by "exported" you mean made available via NFS, no.
-
- >I'm running a Sparc2 with a modem on ttya/cua0 that some people on another host
- >would like to use, but they're shady enough that I don't want to give them
- >accounts on my machine. Is this doable? Thanks!
-
- You could write a simple network server that opens the serial port when it
- receives a connection, and then passes characters between the serial port
- and the network connection.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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