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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD terminal server type thing Date: 2 Oct 1994 21:11:21 GMT Organization: Internet Direct, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <36n7lp$ct1@herald.indirect.com> References: <Cwu5Jr.FvI@un.seqeb.gov.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bud.indirect.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] pc012@un.seqeb.gov.au (Patrick Collins) writes: >Can anyone give me any clues on how to write a daemon that will listen on >a tcpip port and connect incoming sessions to a serial port. This would >work in much the same way as a terminal server does. As in allowing TCP access to a modem, or such? Check out the book _Adventures in UNIX Network Applications Programming_, Bill Rieken and Lyle Weiman, John Wiley & Sons, 1992. ISBN 0-471-52859-7 The authors present several examples like what you're attempting, including a print service that prints to a port on a TCP/IP terminal server.