On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 06:18:47PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > > Is there a way to make those /dev/ttyGXXX devices spawn a network connection > to that particular port? Can I rip out the module for that device and > create identical devices to emulate the modem and open a network connection? > The app cannot be changed, so it needs to happen at the OS level. > > -jay You would need to make the device the application tries to open a FIFO, then write an application that listens on the fifo, emulates a modem (you only need some basic emulation), then connects to the remote device and passes data back and forth. Should be relatively easy as long as the application isn't trying to do any sophisticated ioctl's (and checking the return values) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list