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is a driver for Windows operating system, which allows to use the remote serial port like a virtual
local Com Port on your computer. Other drivers or libraries using RFC 2217 are supported in the
same way, and on dierent operating systems.
Figure 60: Conguration RFC2217
The remote control functions are not limited to transmit and receive serial data to a connected
machine. It is also possible to control the status and operation mode of the serial port. The Telnet
Protocol extension known as RFC 2217 is used for that purpose, the other choice is TCP raw. With
that second choice indeed only transmit and receive with a xed conguration is possible. Let the
Telnet Timeout stay at the value of 0.
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