Date   : Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:25:22 +0100
From   : Philip Pemberton <philpem@...>
Subject: Re: The Beeb BBs Project

Rob wrote:
 > 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 ..!

I'd love to have a go at building an Eco->Ether translator, but I don't have 
any Econet-enabled machines, nor do I have any clock boxes and what not.

Does Econet have any concept of "ports" (like TCP/IP) or is it a single-port 
system?
Personally I'd have the Ethernet box get the lower two octets from the Econet 
network and machine addresses, and then set the upper two in hardware (telnet 
in on a certain port and change it - but add a jumper to allow the IP to be 
reset to a default). Use the 10.x.x.x range and you've got room for 256 
different "supernetworks". No bridging between them, though. Well, not without 
some protocol trickery anyway :-/

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