TCP/IP over Serial Port

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Hello All,
I want to write program using C# and WPF, sending data from RS232 to multiple TcpClients using TcpServer , can any one suggest references or tutorials or books , am new to this networking topic. thanks in advance

Posted 18-Apr-12 0:12am

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I agree with Wes Aday (Solution 1).

In the industry world, there is quite a common practice to have slaves of any kind connected to a PC or a PLC. Each Slave is optimized to use one comunication protocol (CAN, MPI, PPI, Profibus, Profinet, TCP/IP...). The PLCs have different built-in interfaces that can be configured in one or another of those protocols, but once you configure which protocol are you going to use... You are stuck with it for that port / interface. If you need to connect several elements that use a different protocol you need to use a Slave-Master to translate from one to another.

And I also agree with Andy411, the RS232 is the type of connector, not the protocol. You can run different types of transmision through the same cable. I just use one serial and one ethernet cable (and sometimes one adapter to make the serial Null-Modem) at work.

~~In conclusion, I don't see any solution for you without using intermediate Hardware~~
Take a look to solution 5. Computers really can do it, Espen Harlinn pointed it out. Check the links he provided you

Posted 18-Apr-12 11:10am

Nelek

Updated 20-Apr-12 10:41am

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VJ Reddy 19-Apr-12 20:05pm

Good answer. 5!

Nelek 20-Apr-12 16:36pm

Thank you VJ

Solution 3

I guess you read data via RS232 from a device and you want to make this data available over network to other applications.

So you want to carry this data via TCP/IP to one or more clients.

You need something to read the data from the serialport stream and copy it into the socket stream.

Take a look at

SerialPort Class[^]

TcpClient Class[^]

BTW: AFAIK RS232 desribes the physical layer RS 232[^]

Even if both P in TCP/IP stand for protocol you can use this protocols to carry another protocol, e.g. http. TCP/IP is suitable for all kind of point to point communication in a IP based network.

Posted 18-Apr-12 5:01am

Andy411

Solution 6

You can use a protocol like PPP or SLIP.
Both of these protocols were used to encapsulate TCP/IP over a long distance serial feed and were common place in the early dial-up modem internet days.
If you only have 2 wires over a longer distance than TCP/IP can go without power, say like on a long boat, then, you may be able to fool twin/dual dial-up modems to handshake over those wires like they would over a normal POTS system. It won't be fast however, it should work in theory.
Another option would be to use RS-422 if you have 4 wires (2x differential pairs of wires) for full duplex communications and some sort of (PPP,CSLIP,SLIP) program.
I am unsure if this could be achieved over RS-485 being half-duplex.
It may! I have never tried.
It is very interesting!
RS485 can cover 1.2km in distance over twin wires. Far outside the range of Ethernet cables without a repeater. I do not know of any device that will enable the TCP/IP discovery over long-reach serial other than the PPP/CSLIP types.
That's all I have.

Posted 2-Sep-21 14:01pm

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Updated 2-Sep-21 19:51pm

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OriginalGriff 3-Sep-21 1:52am

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-18T11:44:00

Solution 5

One of the standard ways to do tcp/ip over the serial port is documented in rfc1055[^] also known as SLIP[^].

Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) option is not available in Windows 7, but you can use Windows XP mode for SLIP connections.

TCP/IP Sockets in C#: Practical Guide for Programmers[^] provides a nice introduction to TCP/IP development for .Net

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Posted 18-Apr-12 11:44am

Espen Harlinn

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[no name] 18-Apr-12 17:50pm

+5 for pulling that out

Espen Harlinn 18-Apr-12 17:58pm

Thanks Wes, I used slip about 20 years ago to access the internet using a dial-up connection...

[no name] 18-Apr-12 19:13pm

Well you know... I've slept since then. Totally purged from memory.

Espen Harlinn 20-Apr-12 2:41am

:-)

VJ Reddy 19-Apr-12 20:05pm

Nice answer. +5

Espen Harlinn 20-Apr-12 2:41am

Thank you VJ :-D

Nelek 20-Apr-12 16:37pm

I thought it was not possible, thanks for the lesson. +5

Espen Harlinn 20-Apr-12 16:41pm

Thanks Nelek :-D

getanswer 23-Apr-12 4:28am

thx, nice answer....

Espen Harlinn 23-Apr-12 4:31am

Glad to be of some help :-D

Wes Aday · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-18T00:59:00

I am afraid that you are not going to find anything that will help you to use RS232 to communicate with TCP clients. You see... ~~AFAIK it can't be done~~ I'll be darned, I guess you can.

You use the RS232 to communicate with other devices that are also using RS232. Generally uses a serial port.

You use TCP/IP (the P is a big hint, P = protocol) to communicate with other devices that are also using TCP/IP. You can't mix the two. Generally uses an RJ485 port.

You can get specialized devices that will translate RS232 to TCP but you are still communicating RS232.