write in ttyS0

[Colin Charles]

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 10:39, Rick Stevens wrote:

> > 2) i have in may port ttyS0 one machine conected. this machine works
> > with protocolo ZTAP / TAP. i need send "chr()" (a lot off) across de
> > port ttys0. 
>
> Hoo, boy.  Isn't TAP the protocol used by pagers?  Do you need to send
> binary characters (those less than 20 hex) across that link?  In what
> programming language?

The tun/tap devices actually can be used on PPC quite well - it comes in
mighty handy when you need to forward a connection from OS X (say a VPN
based connection), to the local linux system, via MOL (mac-on-linux)

Another use of the tun/tap device is actually when you're running User
Mode Linux
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