On 22-Jul-05, at 9:37 AM, <brook@biology.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> I would like to communicate with a serial port over the network, e.g.,
> to create a long link that appears from the ends to be a serial
> communications channel.
>
> Does anyone know of (open source) software that can achieve such a
> purpose?

Might it be easier if you tell people what each of the endpoints is?   
Two NetBSD boxes?  I think you could probably do this using something  
like netcat on both ends...