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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: serial port forwarding (/dev/ttyS0) over IP/LAN
Date: 21 Apr 2006 12:32:20 GMT
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On 2006-04-20, Florian Erfurth <floh-erfurth@arcor.de> wrote:
: Hello,
: I have to try to get the serial port (/dev/ttyS0) from the remote PC to
: locale PC so I can use the remote serial port as if it is from my own
: (local) PC. The professor told me to use ckermit. Unfortunatelly I couldn't
: find any howto about serial portforwarding over IP/LAN/INet. I didn't found
: any german manual for ckermit...
:
A German edition of the C-Kermit manual was published by Verlag Heinz Heise
in 1994:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/manuals.html#ckde
but this predates the feature you are looking for.
: and I don't know which English search expression should I use at google in
: order to find useful/needed information. I hope, anyone of you could help
: me a little bit or tell me, where is good howto for my problem.
:
I think the information you want is here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit80.html#x14
: Another question... is ckermit a server- or client-programm? As I
: understand, it is a client-programm, so I have to install it on my (local)
: PC in order to use the remote serial port. Am I right?
:
Yes.
: Is it possible to
: use ckermit as server, so the client-user doesn't have to install cserver
: and could use telnet/ssh, huh?
:
Not for this purpse.
: Server and client are both linux (maybe the professor want the client will
: be linux/windows (or really platform indepentend)).
:
Kermit has many functions and options. Depending on what you want to use it
for, it can be a client, a server, or a programming language. For an overview
see:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckututor.html
- Frank