On Mon, 07 May 2007 18:04:20 GMT, Rich Grise wrote:

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

The gadget itself doesn't run Windows, but the PC setup utilities sure
do. Actually, you only need to run one Windows program to find an
Xport on the network and set its IP address. After that, any browser
can open it as a web page and finish all the setups... baud rates,
Telnet/UDP/whatever, packet sizes, timeouts, all that.

You can also do the setups over the local serial port and never use
Windows, although that's more work.

Once it's set up, you can talk Telnet or binary or whatever to it, and
it in turn talks serial to its host device. It's really pretty slick.

John