Converting serial port data to TCP/IP in a Linux environment

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Doug picture Doug · Jan 27, 2009 · Viewed 102.5k times · Source

I need to get data from the serial port of a Linux system and convert it to TCP/IP to send to a server. Is this difficult to do? I have some basic programming experience, but not much experience with Linux. Is there an open source application that do this?

Answer

Judge Maygarden picture Judge Maygarden · Jan 27, 2009

You don't need to write a program to do this in Linux. Just pipe the serial port through netcat:

netcat www.example.com port </dev/ttyS0 >/dev/ttyS0

Just replace the address and port information. Also, you may be using a different serial port (i.e. change the /dev/ttyS0 part). You can use the stty or setserial commands to change the parameters of the serial port (baud rate, parity, stop bits, etc.).

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