On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Bob Ammerman wrote:

> <**> I think there are probably applications for both 'direct to Net' and
> 'gateway supported' connectivity.

I agree completely.

> <**> One of the biggest problems with the minimal implementations is that
> they tend to not have proper error recovery. This is because they don't have
> the space (RAM) to store enough state, nor the space (ROM) for all the error
> handling code. This means that they seem to work when everything is clean
> and happy around them, but break down quickly once things start going wrong.

Again we are in harmony... <grin>  That's why I am concentrating on things
that don't depend on end-to-end error handling.  SNMP wueries are easily
repeated, Web browsers will (I think) re-send requests...  While I would
LOVE to see a telnet server on my PIC, I don't think it's gonna happen.

Dale
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