Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant
> (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server
> protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question,
> I know :)

Finding a Windows driver that will work with an existing FreeBSD
program is certainly one possible approach.  Another, which
I understood to be the intent of the original inquiry, is finding
a FreeBSD solution that will work with an existing Windows driver.
There's surely no reason why a FreeBSD system _can't_ support
a protocol originally developed by a hardware terminal server
manufacturer, as vpnc does for the Cisco VPN protocol.