Date   : Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:05:34 +0100 (BST)
From   : "F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...>
Subject: Re: PC/Econet

How does the Linux kernel support Econet?  Does this include mapping
saved BBC data onto some Linux directory for example?  Would it do this
any better than Windows Server 2003?

Fiaz.

--- Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote: > In article
<019401c456c0$c3137b80$0100a8c0@...>, Charles
> Blackburn
> <charlesb@...> writes
> 
> >hmm interesting....the other thing I was thinking of was a pic
> ethernet <-> 
> >econet i/f. eg the pic would hold the tcpip stack and translate
> between ip and 
> >eco packets. would that work ?
> 
> I was going to say I doubt you'd get a TCP/IP stack into a PIC, but:
> http://www.beyondlogic.org/etherip/ip.htm
> 
> Don't forget the Linux kernel has Econet support.  It might be
> possible
> to build a Econet/Ethernet gateway using a cast-off 486 PC, using the
> parallel port with some glue logic to drive a Master Econet module.
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