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Remote COM Port - What I was looking for

chronodekar, 16.11.2007, 06:07
What I was looking for

For a long time I've been searching the net for a free program that would let me redirect the data from a serial port to TCP/IP.

This does just what I want. And it's even better that you can run it on the tray!! Prevents anyone from accidently closing the program.

One thing however,
Can we have the option to allow exclusive connections to just 1 client? I was experimenting with the multiple clients and it's really confusing.

For example, when one client (A) sends a request to the serial data and another one(B) accidently press the space key, the other guy(B) gets the result of the first request.

So client(A) thinks that something is wrong as he doesn't see any response and client(B) sees some unwanted signals.

I'm using the software over a LAN, so at the moment, what we do is shout out that no-one else should connect when we are connected. (^_^)

Jan, 16.11.2007, 09:23
Re: What I was looking for

For now you may use IP address blocking, but I will try to implement the exclusive connection in following version.

chronodekar, 19.11.2007, 04:57
Re: Re: What I was looking for

That is not really a solution for my problem. You see, I want to access the serial port from 2 different machines. If I try IP blocking, I won't be able to access it from the second machine.

So, at the moment, what I'm doing is that since all the PCs are in the same room we just shout out that no one should access the serial port when someone else is working on it. Our throats are going sore, but it's at least one way around the issue. (^_^)

And Jan, thank you very much for that FAST response.

Jan, 19.11.2007, 09:30
Re: Re: Re: What I was looking for

OK, now I understand.

Jan, 13.2.2008, 20:05
Re: Re: Re: What I was looking for

Finally the exclusive access option was added in version 1.3d.

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