On Thursday, Feb 12, 2004, at 10:01 US/Pacific, Massimo Sala wrote: > > It is very important the terminal server uses industry protocols, the > fundamental is RFC2217 "Telnet Com Port Control Option". > This is only necessary if you need your modem signals operating "correctly" at the other end of the link. For a lot of things, it's not necessary (although sometimes useful for tricking windows programs into thinking it's talking to a local modem.) > > If you want to access these remote devices from a Windows box, through > the > LAN, you have to write some driver or use a virtual commport redirector Ah. That's your problem. You only need the comm port redirector if you want to use applications that expect to talk to a commport (like dialing programs.) If you just want to talk to raw devices, You'll probably have an easier time just using telnet. Even Windows still includes telnet (doesn't it?) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.