RS-232

[Shawn T. Rutledge]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:14:36PM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> Is it possible to run TCP/IP messaging over an RS-232 serial port?  If so
> what is involved?

PPP or SLIP obviously, but I also wonder if there is anything lighter-
weight; because a serial link is point-to-point and has only two ends, 
there's not much purpose in using IP addresses.  Each machine could
assume that any received packet is intended for him, without checking
the IP address.  So it should be possible to run TCP directly on the 
serial port.  I wonder if it is?

-- 
  _______                   Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD  ecloud@bigfoot.com
 (_  | |_)          http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud  kb7pwd@kb7pwd.ampr.org
 __) | | \________________________________________________________________