Date   : Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:46:01 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: The Beeb BBs Project

Yes, an Econet-Ethernet bridge would be good.   So presumably, just
to get my thinking straight on this...

You would have the Bridge device plugged into your Econet port on
the Beeb and you would send a command via Econet which would be
received in the Bridge and then be transmitted into the World Wide
Web from the Ethernet side of the Bridge...

...and then the Ethernet bit connected to the MDFS picks it up, sends
it into the MDFS via Econet, the MDFS does what it needs to do and
sends the response out via Econet via Ethernet via the Web via Ethernet
via Econet to the remote Beeb!

Is that roughly how it works?

If so, then it sounds perfect as it would appear to the end user just 
like using Econet over a very long distance, which is what I would be
trying to do.

If anyone wants to take the Ethernet side of things further then the
offer of the MDFS is here!

Best wishes,



Ian


----- Original Message -----
From: Rob
To:  "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>,<bbc-micro@...>
Sent:  Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:23:21 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] The Beeb BBs Project

At 15:44 12/07/2006, Ian Wolstenholme wrote:


>The idea would be that I have would a BBC Master at the helm with a modem
>running a specially written bit of software to deal with data coming into it
>from the modem, communicate with the MDFS and then send the data back
>to the remote user via the modem.
>
>The remote user wouldn't necessarily have to have Econet because it would
>all be happening over the modem, so he would dial in to the system using
>terminal software and the probably get a message back from me saying "you
>are now connected".  From that point on, the remote user types Econet
>commands into the terminal software, starting with *I AM to log on and
>the BBC Master at my end looks him up in the passwords file and sends back
>directory information when requested etc.

Hmmm.... from that, it sounds like you're basically giving the users 
command line access to the beeb at your end.  I'm not sure that it 
would be any easier, unless you could use something like the <mini on 
a serial port> filing system discusse previous that I can't find the 
name of right now..

Now what would be interesting is if you were to use an 
Econet-Ethernet bridge (were we just waiting on software to finish 
that project?) to directly hang the MDFS on the internet; that way 
the rest of us could access it directly, either using the same to get 
a beeb online, or directly from an emulator ..!

Now that would be cool... classic hardware at each end!

Rob