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?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brook

If you want to interactively connect to it, ser2net is a cool program.

To connect two serial programs over the net, serialoverip is supposed to work (I haven't used it personally).

Both can be found at freshmeat.net.


Let us know what you end up doing!

-Tim