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The general purpose communication interface and related protocols. Specifically, a serial interface transfers one bit at a time ("in serial"), and complies with the RS-232 standard.

The general purpose communication interface and related protocols. Specifically, a serial interface transfers one bit at a time ("in serial"), and complies with the RS-232 standard.

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XenServer Guest PV - Serial Port RS232

Is there any way how to forward (passthrough) physical serial port to XenGuest PV system? I need to be able to configure serial device with virtual server on XenServer 6.2. I’m looking for a solution how to do serial port-forwarding. EDIT: I was…
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FreeBSD Disable Serial Console from Bootloader?

I have a FreeBSD appliance (meaning I can't open the case or I will void the warranty) that was working well until I accidentally clicked 'Enable Serial Console' and rebooted... I went to plug in my serial cable and found the device has no serial…
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Attempting to configure Dell PowerConnect 6244 No Output from Serial Port

I am trying to configure a Dell PowerConnect 6224 Switch managed switch. The documentation for setup can be found here. However I am unable to connect via serial port to the switch. I do not have access to a laptop with a serial port and Windows…
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SOL configuration on Tyan S8225

I'm trying to get Serial over LAN working on a Tyan S8225 motherboard running Linux. The idea is to be able to connect to it on another PC running Linux with the command ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.0.208 -U username sol activate I've never…
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How to replicate the internet connection when a XP Workstation is Virtualized?

Hi here is the issue for me; We have a Workstation A which is connected to our Server B ; this workstation's sole puspose is to work as a terminal server for the outside vendor to login to the server and give support(fix any issues) ; The…
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VMWare serial connection between two vm hosts

I am attempting to simulate a serial connection between two VMWare virtual machines running CentOS 6.3; both hosted on the same VMWare vSphere 5.1.0 host (linux based ). Googling yielded these instructions and it seems that the named-pipe solution…
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Scheduled capture from COM port

I want to capture COM output to a daily file. I can capture manually, using something like RS232 Data Logger, but I want to run a scheduled task so I get a daily log of the data captured. Is there anything out there command line based (from a…
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FreeBSD Serial IO card installation

I am trying to install a PCI serial IO card on a FreeBSD 9.1 (Prerelease) box. I had no success during hours of work. I recompiled kernel using puc and COM_MULTIPORT options. No success. This is the "pciconf -l | grep ^none"…
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windows 2003 - why can't serial port be accessed remotely?

we have recently (foolishly) installed the updates on some of our servers, which have a bit of hardware attached via USB that presents itself as a serial (COM) port. The strange behaviour is that if I start a cmd shell on the server via VNC, I can…
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How to redirect a Hyper-V COM port named pipe to a file?

I would like to redirect the serial port output on RedHat 5.7 to some recordable or reviewable medium. The normal way to do this on a physical machine is to add the console parameters to the kernel in grub like what's below, connect it to another…
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Using COM ports with Virtual Server

I have a couple of servers that I'd like to duplicate as guest instances in virtualserver. One of the applications that runs on them uses the COM ports to communicate between the two servers, and specifically through null-modem/laplink/etc…
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Windows 7 Print Spooler keeps serial ports locked also when stopped

I have a program (environment is Windows 7 Enterprise 32bit) that scans available serial ports to detect a specific device. But on many machines a printer driver is configured on one of the serial port (this does not means that there is actually a…
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Serial connections on network

May sound like a stupid question but just wanted to make sure. Does every serial connection need to have its own IP address. Router 1: Serial 0/0/0 IP address 172.10.80.193/30 Serial 0/1/0 IP address 172.10.80.197/30 Router 2: Serial 0/0/0 IP…
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Pinout: RJ-45 to DB25 adapter for SunBlade 2000

Our suite got new carpet this weekend, and as I was moving the machines out of the way I pulled apart the serial adapter. The RJ-45 clip held fast, and the metal body was screwed tight to the machine - so the metal body pulled out of the plastic…
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Serial to ethernet cable: how to connect to device

How can I use a serial to ethernet cable to connect to a device: in my case a Hp ProCurve AP? A serial to USB or serial to serial would have been great but I found this serial to ethernet cable from a Cisco router lying around and I though that I…
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