Date   : Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:24:56 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Emulating Econet hardware?

I'm still digging away at this to fully document it...
 
The UDP data contains an eight-byte header containing information
from the Econet packet header, followed by the Econet packet data:
 
  UDP Data:
  +------------------+
  | Magic number &02 | &02=Data packet, &03=Ack, &04=NAK
  | Econet Port      |
  | Econet Control   |
  | Padding &00      |
  | Handle &nnnnnnnn |
  |------------------|
  |     Econet       |
  |     Packet       |
  |      Data        |
  +------------------+
 
I think the Net_Tx() function in the Net library would essentially
do something like the following:
 
DEFFNNet_Tx(Stn%,Ctrl%,Port%,Addr%,Len%,RAddr%):try=10:delay=50
 
REPEAT
                            /* Prepare to send */
  sock=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
 
  name.sin_family=AF_INET;  /* Internet socket */
  name.sin_port=&8000;      /* Port for Econet-Over-Ethernet */
  name.sin_addr.s_addr=Stn% /* Destination */
 
  header[0]=&02             /* Econet header */
  header[1]=Port%
  header[2]=Ctrl%
  header[3]=0
  header[4..7]=RAddr%
 
  iov[0].base=&header       /* Point to header to send */
  iov[0].len=8              /* Eight bytes in header   */
  iov[1].base=Addr%         /* Point to data to send   */
  iov[1].len=Len%           /* Specified bytes of data */
 
  socketwritev(sock, &iov, 1);
  socketclose(sock);
 
                            /* Now listen for an acknowledgement */
  sock=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
 
  name.sin_family=AF_INET;  /* Internet socket */
  name.sin_port=&8000       /* Port for Econet-Over-Ethernet */
  name.sin_addr.s_addr=Stn% /* Who we're expecting an Ack from */
  bind(sock, &name, sizeof(name));
 
  socketread(sock, buf, buflen)
  socketclose(sock)
 
  IF buf[0]<>3 THEN try=try-1:IF try>0 THEN PROCdelay(delaytime)
UNTIL buf[0]=3 OR try<1
IF buf[0]=3 THEN =0  :REM Ok
IF buf[0]=4 THEN =&42:REM Not listening
=&40:REM Network error
 
The above is completely off the top of my head, is untried, and
isn't real code that will sucessfully run or compile.
 
I'm still working out the equivalent translation for Net_RxOpen,
Net_RxPoll and Net_RxRead.
 
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