[Xastir] serial ports and tcpip

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, ke4lkq wrote:

> Xastir has an interface option of networked weather via TCPIP. Is this a
> correct statement?  Or is it only good for some types of TCPIP?

It's for talking to OWW, One Wire Weather daemon.


> Reason for question is:
>
> I cannot get the network wx interface to accept data from any port I call from
> "netcat".
>
> I have a SUSE box with 10 serial ports and I want it to serve other boxes
> running programs that need serial data.  I was following a previous thread on
> this subject on the APRS sig a little while back and did not see it resolved.

Can you get it to simulate a serial port on the Xastir end as well?
Perhaps run a netcat at each end or something?  If so then you can
connect Xastir to that and it'll think it's a locally connected
serial port.

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