# Natural IP socket interfacing **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux\ **Created:** [September 22, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-ip-socket-interfacing/61488 "2006-09-22T17:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Jose](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Jose)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-ip-socket-interfacing/61488/1 "2006-09-22T17:48:10Z")
Has anyone some good suggestions for the following. We need to interface to hardware devices via IP socket programming from a natural environment on UNIX. Natural will as you can image be the server and communicating to mutiple hardware devices. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-ip-socket-interfacing/61488/2 "2006-09-22T18:08:33Z")
It basically depends on the level of freedom you have in implementing the infrastructure. From a listener invoked by a Natural session to a listener calling the NNI (Natural Native Interface) there are many ways to skin the cat, one would need to know a bit more about the requirements. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-ip-socket-interfacing/61488/3 "2021-04-02T14:40:51Z")