Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

> Okay I have a puzzle for you. Plug 56 of them into one machine (the
> extreme case I know, but we regularly do 24+) how do you easily
> assign each port to a known entry in /dev ?
>
> At present each time we put a machine together we have to trawl through
> getting each ports serial number and manually generating udev rules.
> A method of using udev with USB that mapped the physical wiring of units
> is what we need but I've yet to find it.

What are you trying to do with all these serial ports?
We use ethernet to serial gateways to communicate with different RS232
driven units in our equipment. The normal serial commands we use are
sent to a single IP address, with the address port number relating to
the particular RS232 port.