Date   : Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:38:10 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Econet-Ethernet bridge

"Eelco Huininga" <eelco@...> wrote:
> Interesting. I hadn't thought of this one yet. Until now I was
> thinking about 'translating' the Econet requests to FTP or Samba
 
No, that would be converting NetFS requests into FTP requests.
NetFS says "i want to load this file", Econet says "here is a
network packet".
 
Yes, within *some* Econet packets are parts of groups of NetFS
packets, but not all Econet packets are NetFS packets. "here is
some data for your listening network port" does not translate into
any FTP packet.
 
> or something. I don't know the Econet protocol in that many detail
> yet, but can you tell me what broadcasts are made over the Econet?
 
Any that any program may want to make.
 
Such as: "where are all the fileservers?", "where are all the
bridges", "I am XXXX server", "where are all the XXXX servers?",
"where are all the servers of any kind?", "character z has moved
from room x to room y", "who wants to talk to me?", "here are the
current stock prices"
 
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