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Chapter 3 Configuring Ports for RealPort 16
Chapter 3 Configuring Ports for RealPort
In This Chapter
This chapter describes how to configure the Digi One/PortServer TS 2/4 for RealPort connections. It discusses
the following topics:
About RealPort ..............................................................................................................................15
Configuring Ports: Web Interface..................................................................................................16
About RealPort
This section provides a brief introduction to RealPort.
What is RealPort?
RealPort is a feature that allows network-based host systems to use the ports of the Digi One/PortServer TS 2/4
as though they were the host system’s own ports, appearing and behaving as local ports to the network-based
host.
RealPort Advantages
RealPort provides the following advantages:
• It expands the number of ports available to the host system.
• It enables Digi One/PortServer TS 2/4 ports to be treated as if they were directly connected to the host, which
means they use all standard operating system interfaces that control baud rate, parity, stop bits, and flow con-
trol.
• It enables host administrators to do most of the required configuration on the host, the system with which the
administrator is most familiar.
• It dramatically reduces host CPU overhead because multiple terminal or printer sessions are multiplexed over
the same TCP/IP connection.
Configuring the RealPort Software
You must install and configure RealPort software on each host that will use RealPort ports. See the RealPort