Adding networked serial ports under /dev

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Is there a way to add a serial port on a remote computer under /dev on the
local computer?

We would like to have

/net/remotebox/dev/ser2 as /dev/ser8 on the local computer.

Using the serial port over the network connection works, as does a symbolic
link to the remote port. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to find a way to add
the symbolic link in the /dev directory.


Thanks

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Mark Dornbush <markxd(delme)@cyberdude.com> wrote:

Is there a way to add a serial port on a remote computer under /dev on the
local computer?

We would like to have

/net/remotebox/dev/ser2 as /dev/ser8 on the local computer.

Using the serial port over the network connection works, as does a symbolic
link to the remote port. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to find a way to add
the symbolic link in the /dev directory.

You can use a pathmgr_symlink():

ln -sP /net/remotebox/dev/ser2 /dev/ser8

This won’t survive a reboot so you’ll want
to put it in your rc.local file.

-seanb