.TH "sredird" "8" "2.2.0" "Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>" "sredird"
.SH "NAME"
sredird \- RFC 2217 serial port server

.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B sredird
.I [\-i] log\-level serial\-device lock\-file [poll\-interval]

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.BR sredird ,
program.
.P
This program when run through
.I inetd
will use the RFC 2217 extensions to TELNET to implement serial commands over
the TCP connection and interface to a specified serial port.

.SH "OPTIONS"
An optional first parameter is '\-i' to enable compatability with Cisco IOS.

The first mandatory parameter is the log level for use in syslog.  The next
mandatory parameter is the device node for the serial device, it must be a
fully qualified path.  The final mandatory parameter is the file name for the
lock file to be used to prevent multiple instances of
.I sredird
from talking to the serial port at the same time, or to allow sharing a port
between modem and
.I sredird.

.SH "EXAMPLE"
Here is a configuration line for running it from inetd:
sredir          stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/sredird 5 /dev/modem /var/lock/LCK..modem

.SH "AUTHOR"
This man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.  May be
freely used and distributed without restriction under the terms of the GPL.
.P
The
.I sredird
program was written by Denis Sbragion <d.sbragion@infotecna.it> and
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>.