Need suggestions on my problem

I am looking for an application which I think I may need to code myself
that is transparent to applications. Any application talks to this
"object" via IP and then instead of going out over IP it goes out
over a serial link. PPP works great for this, but as far as I can tell
PPP will only work with two "nodes". I would need it to work with
many nodes. It would be great if something was already developed but I
have looked and haven't seen any. If someone knows of something then
please let me know. As for writing this object myself, I don't know
how to do it. I can program in C/C++ well and I have research some, and
have found that the tun/tap device much be something I am need to use.
But I can't seem to find any good coding example on how to use it.
So if someone could give me some suggestions and or point me in the
direction to go I would really appreciate it.

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> I am looking for an application which I think I may need to code
> myself that is transparent to applications. Any application talks to
> this "object" via IP and then instead of going out over IP it goes out
> over a serial link. PPP works great for this, but as far as I can tell
> PPP will only work with two "nodes". I would need it to work with
> many nodes. It would be great if something was already developed but
> I have looked and haven't seen any. If someone knows of something
> then please let me know. As for writing this object myself, I don't
> know how to do it. I can program in C/C++ well and I have research
> some, and have found that the tun/tap device much be something I am
> need to use. But I can't seem to find any good coding example on how
> to use it.
> So if someone could give me some suggestions and or point me in the
> direction to go I would really appreciate it.

You might want to examine the "platform independent" SerServ/src/*.cpp code
from http://sourceforge.net/projects/serserv to see if it provides the
needed examples.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I am looking for an application which I think I may need to code myself
> that is transparent to applications. Any application talks to this
> "object" via IP and then instead of going out over IP it goes out
> over a serial link. PPP works great for this, but as far as I can tell
> PPP will only work with two "nodes". I would need it to work with
> many nodes. It would be great if something was already developed but I
> have looked and haven't seen any. If someone knows of something then
> please let me know. As for writing this object myself, I don't know
> how to do it. I can program in C/C++ well and I have research some, and
> have found that the tun/tap device much be something I am need to use.
> But I can't seem to find any good coding example on how to use it.
> So if someone could give me some suggestions and or point me in the
> direction to go I would really appreciate it.


If you HAVE to post the same question to multiple
groups, please cross-post instead of multi-posting,
so that all responses follow with the question.

See my response in c.o.l.misc.

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Tauno Voipio
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