rec.autos.simulators

by **David Paul Gym** » Wed, 21 Dec 1994 00:28:47

Does anyone know if there's any way to fake a serial connection using
Ethernet? Specifically for playing ICR and WC/F1GP.

-- Gizmo

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by **Mike You** » Wed, 21 Dec 1994 05:37:09

>Subject: Serial faked over Ethernet?
>Date: 19 Dec 1994 15:28:47 GMT
>Does anyone know if there's any way to fake a serial connection using
>Ethernet? Specifically for playing ICR and WC/F1GP.
>-- Gizmo
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A few months back, some fellow announced a shareware product that does exactly
that for Windows. It was essentially a driver that generated pseudo-comm ports
that Windows would recognize and use; internally, it repackaged traffic in TCP
packets.

For DOS level app's, however, that layer of abstraction simply isn't there.
Most applications write directly to the serial port hardware. The best you can
hope to do is loop back into another serial port, and have a very simple
program pretend to be Hayes modem, and resend the data out the NIC. I don't
know of such an animal, but it should be a relatively simple thing to build.
Not too simple, of course, but the scope and complexity is relatively low.

Mike.