Date   : Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:33:39 +0100
From   : Phil Blundell <philb@...>
Subject: Re: Econet-Ethernet bridge

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:35 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Yes, I hadn't realised that before, but the docs seem to imply that the
> protocol's capable of handling more than 256 devices, but Acorn chose
> not to do this I believe (I'm not aware of any Acorn machines that can
> have a station ID > 255). I haven't read the datasheet fully yet though,
> just skimmed through it.

I think the second address byte is the network number.

> Presumably any kind of acknowledgement / timeout is done at a higher
> protocol level? (In other words a packet sniffer would be possible
> because the ADLC can run in purely passive mode and read entire packets
> destined for other stations)

Right.  There are a few implementations of packet sniffers that do
exactly this.

p.