Re: NIC as RS232
From: Thanasis
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 02:09:31 EST
on 01/08/2008 08:48 AM Thanasis wrote the following:
> Is there a kernel driver that would make a NIC's port work as a RS232
> port, using the serial cables that are RJ45 on one side and DB9 or DB25
> on the other? Maybe null modem cables of that type ? Or for example
> those used by cisco as console port cables?
>
> (or may be I'm dreaming ;-)
>
>
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>
Forget my previous question, as I understand now that I gave it a more
serious thought, that it is not a matter of driver, but an
incompatibility between the two in the layer/media carrier level.
(Yea, I was dreaming :-)
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