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Windows Dial Up Networking
Introduction¶
Many embedded applications benefit from communicating with a PC. However, not all boards have a USB or an ethernet port.
On the other side, most embedded applications have a serial port!
So, instead of just sending simple serial messages to a terminal program on your PC, we would like to establish a network connection with the PC. This means that we can communicate to our embeeded board using the web browser on the PC.
The hardest part of doing this is to create a Dial Up Network (DUN) adapter in Windows.
This is done in two steps - First, you "install" a new "modem". In our case, you are really telling Windows that one of your existing serial ports is actually a "modem". Secondly, using the Network and Sharing interface, you create a new "connection to the internet".
Our own modem name¶
All this is decribed in detail here [/users/nixnax/code/PPP-Blinky/wiki/Configuring-Windows-Dial-Up-Networking]] , but this page adds a nice touch - instead of choosing the modem Communications Cable Between Two Computers choose I have a disk and present this file: /media/uploads/nixnax/ppp-blinky.inf
As you will see in the last line of the file, you get a cool new modem named mbed-PPP-Blinky instead of Communications Cable Between Two Computers
This is what it looks like on my Windows 8 machine.
Yeah!