### Configuring RealPort Connections: An Introduction

RealPort is a feature that allows LAN-based host systems to use the ports of Digi One RealPort and PortServer TS as though they were the host system's own ports, appearing and behaving as local ports to the LAN-based host.

#### RealPort Advantages

RealPort provides the following advantages:

- It expands the number of ports available to the host system.
- It enables Digi One RealPort and PortServer TS 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 control.
- 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.