Serial/IP Socket Bridge - Project Suggestions

["Mark Marooth" <MMarooth@xxxxxxx>]

Chaps,

Today, whilst waiting for work compiles to run I started developing a
Serial
Port to TCP/IP Socket bridge.  For me I plan to use this to connect a
collection
of Weeder I/O cards to a serial port on an old 486 laptop which is in
turn
connected to the house network.  This way I can telnet to the laptop
process and
control/read the cards as if I was attached by serial port.  Also, I
can use the
same facilities built into MrHouse to talk to these cards.

Laptop is totally stripped down and boots from the network so no hard
disk,
screen, keyboard etc.

One of the beauties of this development is that the software will
handle
multiple inbound connections (TCP/IP) to one or more serial
connections.

I'm open to any functionality suggestions which would make this usable for
other
sorts of serial devices with the plan that I make the source available to
the
group for their use.

I know that there is another thread on the go to do with siteplayers
etc.  I
plan to use streams rather than UDP to get the reliability.

Initial development will be Linux based with a later backwards step to
windows.


Any suggestions gratefully accepted.


Part of the reason for this project is for me to refresh my C skills,
been
programming VB for far too long !



Mark




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