USB over IP

[Uffe Jakobsen]

Hi,

On 2012-05-21 12:46, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> I need to control some lab equipment with several usb based controllers
> (mostly serial) and was wondering if it can be done over IP, there is such a
> thing called usbip, but couldn't find what 'server' is needed.
> all the boxes I found are not cheep, but worse, only provide binaries
> for windows, or linux.

I'm not entirely sure about your setup - you write usb based controllers 
- and then mostly serial...

I know it is not strictly speaking usb over ip - but did you look at RFC 
2217 ?

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2217

There are several projects supporting RFC 2217:

http://ser2net.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sercd/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyclades-serial/

"ser2net" and "sredird" are in FreeBSD ports:

http://www.freshports.org/comms/ser2net/
http://www.freshports.org/comms/sredird/

/Uffe