[Sheflug] Connect to remote serial port via TCP - help anyone?

[<Stephen.Tozer-Loft@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

This can't be that difficult, in fact I feel it must be very easy, but
it's a part of linux I'm a total novice in (one of many).

I have a device (barometer VAISALA Barcop PTB330) which is attached via
a serial port to a 'RS232 single port device server' (Patton Model 2232)
to make it available via LAN.

All configured and working - I can connect to it and get readings from a
Windoze computer by setting the device server up as a COM port using
serial redirection software.  But I'm struggling to connect to it from
our linux server.

(Ideally from perl) I'd like to be able to make a connection to the
remote IP address and port at which the barometer is communicating, to
make linux think it's a real local serial port, then use perl to
collect, graph, and webserve the data.

Any ideas how I set this up?  Linux is Centos 5.

Many thanks in anticipation

steve t-l

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