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

From: Dickson Law (dklaw1968_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 22:30:36 -0800

"Patrick Kelly" <nospamminggitspaidsergrey@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<OplIb.2539$HR.6314@news.indigo.ie>...
> "CHANGE USERNAME TO westes" <DELETE_westes@earthbroadcast.com> wrote in
> message news:RNydnfysJP88TWyiRVn-jg@giganews.com...
> > 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.
> >
> > There are situations where I cannot connect directly to the network port
> on
> > the device (such as when I'm configuring the network port or upgrading the
> > firmware on the network management card). Therefore I have no choice but
> > to go in by serial port.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate referrals to terminal server products that have
> > the capability I am describing.
> >
>
> Can you specify a port number as well as an IP address, e.g. 192.168.3.45
> Port 2001 or do you need individual IP addresses?

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