The Haxxio UDP Serial Port Redirector
Features
Flexible Communications Port Assignment - The Redirector
has a pulldown list with COM1 through COM16 (any existing ports
found on your system are not listed) provided as predefined ports.
But you are not limited to this selection - you can create a serial
port with any number, for example, COM214. More than that, you
can create a port with any name - It doesnt need to begin
with "COM". The use of the prefix "COM" is
merely a convention, dating back to the MS-DOS days to an operating
system serial port handler that almost no-one used. No-one used it
because it was unbuffered and didn't use interrupts, so there were
often cases of serial overruns and lost characters.
Flexible UDP Port Assignment - The Redirector allows the
use of any UDP port to transmit to, and any free UDP port to receive
from. Of course, you are advised to be sensible about your choice of
port, to avoid using ports reserved for other purposes and actually in
use on your network
Several Addressing Modes - The Redirector is versatile in
how it transmits data to other devices on your network. It can always
transmit to a single device, or always transmit to the first device
it received a packet of data from, or it can "follow" the
source of received data by transmitting back to the last device it received
a packet from. As if this were not enough choices...
Broadcast Addressing Mode - The Redirector can always send it's
packets to the network broadcast address. This enables communications
between groups of devices on the same subnet (strictly, the same broadcast
domain)
Useful Statistics - The Redirector counts packets and bytes,
and also keeps note of average and maximum packet sizes, enabling you
to tune the Redirector for the fastest response, or the lowest network or
computer load, or however you need it all to work.
Drop In Replacement of older technologies - The Redirector
interface is the serial port, the oldest and still most widely used way
of connecting a PC into automation, SCADA, BMS and other monitoring and
control applications.
User Interface Choices - The Redirector offers choices of
how to start, how to minimise, and when to start, allowing easy
integration into existing environments, and discouraging playing where
required.
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