Date   : Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:47:17 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Econet <> Ethernet

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 18:02 +0100, Rob wrote:
> Several years ago, I used to run a PPTP server that allowed me to set
> up a connection home from any random windows machine that I came
> across, (as PPTP is buit in) and gave me a local IP address.   I was
> considering doing this again, maybe on a seperate IP range, to allow
> disperate BeebEms (or whatever!) access.
> 
> I've had a quck look at RFC2003, and it looks like it's pretty easy as
> you say..  would just need to work out how to implement it!

Yup, PPTP would work for that as well.  But it's a much more complex
protocol than RFC2003 and I don't think there's enough code space in the
bridge unit to add PPTP in there.  So, for bridging multiple econets
together across the Internet, we would either need to implement
something simple along the lines of RFC2003 (and/or a UDP-based
equivalent) or accept that the bridge is going to need to be front-ended
by a PC of some kind.  The latter would be a bit of a shame though not
the end of the world, I guess.

p.