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I am looking for a way to use a remote serial port on a linux machine over LAN. The machine is running ubuntu 10.04 and I have a arduino board connected to it, that I would like to be able to reprogram or listen/talk to serial output of it over LAN.

It would be great if the client software would be platform indepented but linux only client would be ok too.

Thanks!

UPDATE:

There are some programs like that for windows: http://www.hw-group.com/products/hw_vsp/index_en.html http://www.serial-port-communication.com/serial-over-tcpip/ (this appears to have a linux version to, but its not open source...)

And finally actually wikipedia has some useful notes and references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_port_redirector

UPDATE2: Most interesting candidate: http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/

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You could try remserial http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/ (though that might well not work) or ser2net (in universe) + a client. I'd personally be a bit nervous about flashing it over it though.

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You could SSH to the machine having the connection to the arduino board, and access the serial port through minicom or whatever. I am not sure how you would forward it though, not sure if it is possible.

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  • +1 this is what I do to manage my remote network devices: I have a 1U rack-mounted Intel Atom "server" as my management workstation running Debian with no X, but with a couple of PCI serial cards in it.
    – gravyface
    Jun 24, 2010 at 19:38
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screen does a very good job of this. Ssh into the remote box and screen /dev/ttyWhatever baudrate

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  • How do you set data bits, stop bits, parity, and flow control?
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