Questions about serial2tcp

[James Sentman]

First everything Tom said is absolutely right :) 


On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Rob Lewis <rob at whidbey.com> wrote:

> 1. serial2tcp runs on the remote Mac, right? And there’s no companion program on the local Mac? 

yes, there are other programs that try to turn the TCP stream back into a virtual serial port for use with apps that do not support connecting to an IP stream. These traditionally dont work well or aren't supported at all on the mac and are fiddley and difficult to keep working, require kernel level drivers and are just generally a hack, or at least feel that way to me. So to get around this but to provide the same functionality we just built all our serial interfaces so that they could connect to either a real serial port or a TCP stream. So that second part of the software isn't necessary for XTension.


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> 2. Does this only work with XTension, or will it work with any program that uses serial ports? If the latter, how does the local Mac know to look for serial ports on the remote one? 

as Tom said, it will work with any program that can connect to a TCP stream as well as a serial port. so anything that you could connect to a wiznet card you can connect to this app also, but if the app doesn't know about network connections then it wont work.

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> 3. Is there something special about port 2000 or can I use any one? 
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use any port above 1024, but you might want to search up the list of well known ports so that you don't accidentally bump into something else.

Thanks,
 	James


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