> Don't know about nfs, but bootp/RARP/that sort of thing is attractive.

Probably easier to implement than DHCP (lack of timeouts, for example)

> TFTP might not be bad, I even have a TFTP server for Windows (thanks
> Cisco!), so that might work.  I avoid looking too hard at

TFTP on a PIC?  As what, a bootloader?  That could be interesting...

> The CS8900 is far from perfect but the least
> objectionable I've seen so far.  The real question is - how
> long will it
> live?

Seems fairly easy to i/f to, the only thing holding me back ATM is
magnetics.
One other possibility is to add TCP/IP stacks on dedicated chips, but things
rapidly progress towards the question of whether a PIC is suitable.

> It's been done, and I have looked into it but discarded the
> idea.  ISA is
> dying very quickly, and while you can buy ISA Ethernet cards used very
> cheaply, they have zero appeal for anything but a one-off
> hobby project.

Agreed - but since I am doing this as a hobby project, ones & twos doesn't
bother me that much.  Even tinkering with the CS8900 is still in the hobby
domain, just... smaller.  I'm looking more at the home automation side of
things - sort of a testbed of "this is what we have; now, what can be done
with it".

Peter
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