[Elecraft] Serial to Ethernet - TCP/IP connections

[David Woolley (E.L)]

That's clearly not true, as both ethernet and USB are serial.  What you 
tend to need is a link layer implementation (which can be software) to 
packetise and multiplex messages.  (Ethernet also allows multiplexing 
with multiple physical line drivers, which requires a master station 
which knows who is on the link, collision detection or some sort of 
discovery protocol.)

There are standards for multiplexing over asynchronous serial 
connections.  Some, like SLIP, are very simple.  One could also have 
application specific ones, although there would be problems getting 
everyone to agree on the same one. (SLIP is really a packetisation 
protocol, it needs a multiplexing one, which can be IP, but can be 
simply prefixing with a channel number.)

Apologies for pronouns preceding nouns, but that is list policy!

Ken Nicely wrote:

> 
> One of the main problems with the serial communication is that only one
> software application or device can connect at a time, so we end up with

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