Date   : Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:41:31 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Econet interface

"Mark Usher" <mu.list@...> wrote:
> >We have 3 approaches suggested so far
> There is a 4th as suggested by Phil
> 4) a standalone bridge unit
>    Econet one side, Ethernet the other. This could get very complicated with
 
No, it's easy.
 
>    the internal software to sort out the addressing and possible routing
>    implications. It would be the most invisible solution and hardware
>    independent both Acorn and PC sides. Emulators would then have to address
 
I've got a spare A4000 with an ethernet interface in it. I've been
meaning to plug an econet interface in it and run the ethernet-
to-econet gateway software on it. We had a similar setup in Hong
Kong where the R260 unix server had econet and ethernet and allows
eveything on each side to access the other side. See
http://mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/AFE/Network
 
A bit of nomenclature:
 
Bridge - connects two *similar* networks, eg econet to econet or
ethernet to ethernet
Gateway - connects two *dissimilar* networks, eg econet to
ethernet.
 
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