[ On Friday, July 21, 2000 at 08:52:47 (+0300), Jukka Marin wrote: ]
> Subject: pty and baud rate?
>
> I want to create a "driver" for a "terminal server" in NetBSD.  This box
> has an Ethernet interface and 8 serial ports.  Can I use pty's and a userland
> daemon or do I need to create a real kernel device?  I want the device to
> be almost identical to real tty's (I want the speed, parity, etc. ioctl's
> to work so I can use "any" serial port aware software with this hack).

Which way do you want this "terminal server" to work?  Do you want to
"dial" in to it, or do you want to telnet/whatever to it and "dial" out?
(or both?)

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