====== Hardware TNCs ====== Hardware TNCs come in two main flavours: KISS, and traditional. Traditional TNCs are generally serial host devices, to which you connect with a serial cable and a USB adapter, using terminal software like PuTTY or Tera Term, and they present a command shell to the user to type commands to. KISS TNCs do not have this, and instead delegate most of their processing to a packet engine running on their host PC. ===== KISS ===== ===== "Traditional" =====