Date   : Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:31:34 +0200
From   : "Eelco Huininga" <eelco@...>
Subject: Re: Econet-Ethernet bridge

 

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> Namens Jonathan Graham Harston
> Verzonden: vrijdag 29 juli 2005 18:38
> Aan: bbc-micro@...
> Onderwerp: [BBC-Micro] Re: Econet-Ethernet bridge
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>  
> "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.

I see. But wouldn't it be possible for it to emulate an Econet fileserver,
and that on the back-end it would just pass all the requests to an FTP
server? It would take some hardcore coding, but I'd say it could be done...

 
Eelco