Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:42:10 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: FileStore emulator 2010/07/24

On 26/07/2010 13:50, J.G.Harston wrote:

>> Rick Murray wrote:
>>> Is there a doc anywhere describing the interfacing protocol? I'm trying to
>>> unpick the AUN stuff, and work out WTF to do with stuff like flag-fill. [the
>>> FS is so damn slow it probably does that...]
>
> http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Econet/

I meant, more specifically, BeebEm. How does it stuff the network 
address, port, etc into a TCP/IP packet?

Does it have an open port you can probe to initiate a connection? What 
port number? Does it try to connect out to look for servers? On what 
port? I guess there's a table of IP addresses - does it look through 
each in turn? What about multiple machines on the same computer? How 
does it/should it handle a server not present? If the network (TCP/IP) 
is disconnected, will Econet return No Clock? :-)

Those sorts of questions - very specific to the emulator's style of 
networking.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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