[TenTec] re: Ethernet to RS232 adapters

[Grant Youngman]

> 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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Grant Youngman /NQ5T
http://www.globeking.com
nq5t at attbi.com