Hi guys,

I´m a linux newbie. I use Ubuntu Gutsy im my laptop.

Well, I have a device that only comunicates through com1 (rs232) to my laptop, but I need to redirect that data received from com1 to a ip address (over ethernet) in server located in another network computer.

I would like to know how can I redirect the data receveid from com1 to a eth ip address.

When I was using windows I used Serial to Ethernet Connector software from Eltima (_http://www.eltima.com/products/serial-over-ethernet/), and this was just perfect.

But now I kicked Windows out of my life and I need to know how I can do in Linux what Eltima serial to ethernet did in windows.

I would be very gratefull to have some backup answers from you guys.

Thanks in advance.

Check out some of the devices from Sena (www.sena.com). They appear to be black-box type things, though, but that may be a better solution, depending on what you're looking for.

Thanks for the answer, but it seems that SENA is a commercial solution, and I want to avoid that.

I was thinking in someting that we can do over linux comand line.

I receive data from com1 (rs232) in an interverval of 15 seconds and I would like to redirect that data (binary I supose) to a ethernet ip address in my linux machine (what comes after does't matter).

Any idea guys?

You can just pipe the data to the network device, but it'll just be gibberish, unless you encapsulate it, and make it into something useful. If you don't want a commercial solution, your only other option is to write your own program to do it.

There's lots of info on socket programming for C, Perl, and probably Ruby and Python too, all of which run nicely on Linux.

Could you please give me an example of a pipe comand do redirect data from com1 to eth?