9:40:23resttimeHmmm, I guess to double check: Suupose there's an embedded ARM system like raspberry pi but can only have a single serial connection to communicate to it with something like 'screen /dev/ttyUSB0' (not SSH). THere is a way to connect on a computer with SLIME to the swank server that a lisp is running on this device?
9:41:43resttimeNever done something like this except SSH tunneling, so I suppose this is fairly new to me.
9:43:21phoeresttime: tunnel SSH, that'll be the easiest.
9:44:50resttimephoe: I don't think the device has that capability which is why I'm kinda stuck
9:45:12resttimeErrr, for the device I'm thinking about doing this with that is
9:45:33lokeExtending SLIME to support communication over serial should be trivial.
9:54:57resttimeI was hoping there would be some kind of simple way to just do "SSH tunneling port but with a serial connection"
9:55:05jdzI've had to poke around with stty and whatnot on OSX to get some stuff working, and I did manage to get it working, so I bet the stuff still works.
9:56:22resttimeI suppose topics I should be looking into then is PPP and multiplexing protocols
9:56:48jdzAnd terminal emulation (welcome to the world of hurt!).
9:57:47ZhivagoLinux tun/tap should be easy to run over serial.
9:58:53resttimeYeah, it's that 'screen /dev/ttyUSB0' can drop me into a busybox shell on the device and I was wondering if I could do the stuff I would do if I used like SSH on tunneling the swank server port
10:00:14ZhivagoWell, you could if you ran a network over that serial line.
10:00:40ZhivagoOtherwise you might need to think about it more.
10:01:11d4ryusAre you able to start a swank instance listening on a local port? or is there no network at all?
10:01:46phoed4ryus: if he had network, he wouldn't need to use serial I guess.
10:03:55d4ryusi had a broken ethernet on my pi and no wifi available. But i was able to start swank and then tunnel stuff via usb terminal and netcat. Was quite a hack yes, but it worked
10:07:06resttimeHmmmm, that's reassuring to know. I suppose I will also try and explore whether it's possible to enable networking. I've so far assumed it wasn't because connections with the device have been only serial with the screen utility and I would imagine people would want to switch to something better if they could (hence conclusion that couldn't)
10:07:50resttimeLike I remember someone mentioning using zmodem to get files from the device.
10:08:02resttimeThen they found out that screen could do it too
10:10:53resttimeThis unix connections stuff is so far kinda an anomaly to me