Date   : Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:40:42 +0100
From   : c.j.thornley@... (Christopher Thornley)
Subject: Master Ethernet upgrade

You can encapsulate then in IP packets. 


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uk] On Behalf Of Mark Usher
Sent: 11 July 2009 19:18
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Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Master Ethernet upgrade


> >a gateway and can runs daemons at the application level - a server,
> some of
> which e.g. SMTP will be a proxy.
> Yes this is a layer 7 device capacble of operting on layer 7 and the 
> layers below it.
> But this over complicates things and esentially is not needed and will 
> be slower. You only need a layer 3 device to do this task.


Nope. You need Layer 4 also as the econet packets have to be encapsulated
within a UDP packet or extracted from one.

-Mark



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