I have an application were I need addressable switch to power on a rs232 device and switch on communications to this device. Ther will be 16 devices on this network. My concern is after PIC determines its addressed (valid command on) I need to make communications transparent through PIC ie bi directional from one
comm port to the other. I am concerned with loosing data and timing etc. I could buffer input / output data but data strings are not more than 256 or so at a time. Any thoghts or comments would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Scott