Im new to network programming. Let me tell what my requiremets are.. And Please suggest me the psooible solutions.
I have a server computer to which a hardware is attached. The hardware works on TCP/Ip. The requirement is to connect to the hardware remotely from any client machine. So to avoid the hardware being availabe to everybody(not to keep it in public network), we have created a subnet in which the hardware and the server computer reside. Now i have to talk to the hard ware using the APIs and command sets provided by the harware vendor thro any client machine. So i need some thing ( may be a software routing) that makes it possible for the client machine to control the hardware after getting the permission from the server.Server computer is also part of the bigger network. In other words server compuet will have 2 ethernet cards one for talking to the hardware another for talking to the rest of the world. Any help / code to do this is greately appreciated.