> Yep- they are expensive little boxes. Silly thing is, I had a friend
> turn one of my old junque machines into a wonderful box that puts my
> packet TNC on my network. I just telnet to 192.168.blah.blah, and a
> window opens up, and I'm connected to my TNC in the way-back-building
> and and checking for spots on the cluster.
That's all the standalone interface boxes do .. is give you a Telnet
thingy to connect to. Doesn't take much of an engine to manage
that. I suspect the box, connectors and power supply cost more
than the working silicon. They're sort of the IP version of the old
X.3/X.28/X.29 adapters for ascii over X.25.
The smarter USB-to-async adapters are a little more plug&play --
they just look like another COM port, except they're a mite faster ..
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