On Fri, 04 May 2007 20:50:40 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

This is the Lantronix Xport module.

http://www.lantronix.com/device-netw...ers/xport.html

This particuler unit randomly, a couple of times a week maybe, draws a
lot of power and gets very hot, 80C or so, and still works, but
flakily. So we decided to rip it open and see what's inside.


EWWWWW!!!!!

From the web page:
quote
....
Management
SNMP, Telnet, serial, internal web server, and Microsoft Windows®-based
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
utility for configuration
....
Included Software
MS Windows®-based DeviceInstaller software device installer and MS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^
Windows-based Comm Port Redirector
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
....
/quote
[emphasis added]

I think I've found your problem. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich