On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:54:21 -0400, firewall_fred@HUSHMAIL.COM wrote:

>I would like to send & receive very basic telnet commands with a pic or send pe
riodic SMTP messages to my mail server, whichever is easier. I'm wanting to deli
ver temperature readings from a remote location in the mountains down to a contr
ol center 90 miles away which has a wireless ethernet link with the site (soon t
o buried in the snow). The only interface available is a standard ethernet hub,
either 10Base-2 (coax) or 10Base-T (UTP). Prefer the

The latest EDN mag shows a chip called the iChip S7600A which
implements the TCP/IP protocol in hardware.  Suposedly connects
pretty eaisly to a x86 or 68000 system.  It might be a lot of work to
interface to a PIC but it's got to be eaiser than rolling your own.

The URL listed is http://www.seiko-usa-ecd.com

Check it out and then report back as this topic comes at least
monthly.

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Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.
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