Re: Looking For Terminal Server That Can Give Each Serial Port a Unique IP

From: Greg Andrews (gerg_at_panix.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:54:33 +0000 (UTC)

"CHANGE USERNAME TO westes" <DELETE_westes@earthbroadcast.com> writes:
>I am looking for a terminal server product that can map each serial port on
>the terminal server to a unique IP address. My application for this is
>management of several network devices through a GUI tool that expects to
>connect directly via telnet or a serial port to the device. The
>management software has no programmatic capability, so I have no way to
>negotiate my way through a terminal server's selection menu. What I need
>instead is the ability to configure the management tool with a unique IP
>address that will connect directly to the text stream of the device via
>telnet, thereby faking out the software into thinking it has a network
>connection to the device when it fact it has a serial connection.
>

Can't you configure the management software to use different TCP
port numbers in the telnet command? Many terminal servers will
connect you to a different port for each TCP port number. (e.g.
TCP port 5001 = serial port 1, TCP port 5002 = serial port 2, etc.)
Fewer terminal servers will assign a unique IP address to each
serial port.

  -Greg 

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