Synergy is a well known tool to have only one keyboard and mouse for two networked (TCP/IP) computers with a screen each. I loved to use it at my former job. Now, at my new job, I've still got two PC, but they are in completely different and isolated networks: Administrative and development, Windows and Linux, accordingly.
Seeing a "serial" feature of putty (Windows), which usually is able to do all sorts of tunneling, I wonder whether it would allow me to use Synergy through a TCP-over-Serial connection. I reckon I'd need to use SLIP on the Linux side.
Has anyone got experience with this, or with parts of this?
Best Answer
If you're running SLIP (or, better, PPP), then you've built an IP network over your serial cable. You assign IP addresses (RFC 1918 private addresses most likely) on both sides, and use Synergy with those addresses. There wouldn't be any reason to use PuTTY's port forwarding.
Of course, your two networks are no longer isolated. Especially if you keep routing/forwarding turned off on both machines this may be OK or may not be, depending on your security policies and needs.