Good morning everybody.

Is it possible, using RouterOS to do the following.

I have a device on the serial port.
The device just outputs data to serial port.
I usualy used a serial to ip module (from TIBBO). That module connected to an ip address and port and just forwarded that serial data to that ip (where an application knew what to do with the data)

So, what i am trying is to forward data from serial port to an ip (eg. 10.0.0.50:1001) (on any condition and without having to enter username or password anywhere)
My serial port is allready configured for remote access (since i wanted to connect to the device for configuration purposes)



thanks

I don't have the device here so here is just a thought (and i'll test later)
if i create a ppp-client named ppp-serial0 (with no user data) on my serial0 port and create a dst nat rule that translates all data with incoming port ppp-serial0 to ip 10.0.0.50?

could this work?



thanks

http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... 39#p167239 ?..

http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... 39#p167239 ?..

No.... the other way around...
Now i have a problem that some ISP's block traffic (one way) to mobile devices, so from my server i can't connect to some routerboards with hsdpa , bud those same routers can connect to that server.

So, out of 50 devices, 40 works fine. The remaining ten are unreachable from the server, but can connect to the server.
Now, if only there was a way to forward incoming data on serial port to a specific IP address and port.

well, your RBs may initiate some tunnel to your server (like eoip, pptp, etc.), and you will connect via tunnel

That's what i would do, but there is a dumb router for internet access which has no VPN capabilityes.
If i had MT there, i would have no questions. I am forced to adapt to the situation.

anyone?

is there a way to forward data from serial port to an ip address and port?

use /port remote-access and add a new entry with type = RAW and tell it what port to listen on. you can then use netcat or other utility to talk directly to the serial port over ethernet.

Sam

use /port remote-access and add a new entry with type = RAW and tell it what port to listen on. you can then use netcat or other utility to talk directly to the serial port over ethernet.

Sam

I am allready able to comunicate with my serial-only device that is connected to my routerboard.
What i need now is for routerboard to initiate a connection to that server and relay data from serial0 to server IP and back again (serial device sends rfid card number and server responds with a simple 'got it' so device can send the next number.


Like i said. it works fine if server initiates the connection to rb.
i need instructions on how to make rb to initiate a connection to seerver.