TTYLINK Question

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@col.hp.com>]

> It doesn't work that way.  Port 87 and Port COM1 are not the same kind of
> "port" at all.  The async port is really a port, accessed at protocol
> layer 1 (physical).  The ttylink port is more a "socket" and has meaning
> only at protocol layer 4 (transport), where TCP runs.

Agreed.  But what he was really asking for, that I think would be useful too,
is a way to "telnet to a server that does nothing but pass data to/from a
serial port on the PC".

You can do this with things like cisco terminal servers by specifying unusual
TCP port numbers that are mapped to the hardware ports.

Bdale