kerrisnow@btinternet.com wrote:

>My idea was to go from the easy to the difficult in terms of
>hardware, but really the problem with the ENC28J60 as far as I understoo=
d
>from people in this group is that one needs to write the MAC software, w=
hich
>I haven't a clue how to do, or is it available now?

Not for us "common" people but will be very soon now I hope. Olin got is =
though (Since November 2004... hmm...). ;-)

Cheers
/Ake


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>From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
>To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [PIC] Need help with embedded web server
>
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>>Ake Hedman wrote:
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>>>But you can go use SLIP through winsock on hyperterminal. Of course yo=
u
>>>need some RFC-822 compliant on the other side.
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>>I haven't checked, but my recollection is that RFC 822 defines header
>>commands of SMTP email messages, with SMTP itself is defined in RFC 821.
>>
>>In any case, I got the impression that the OP meant that Hyperterm woul=
d
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>be
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>>connected directly to the serial line, which of course would make it
>>impossible to run SLIP over that same line.  Something still isn't righ=
t
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>or
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>>we're missing some information.
>>
>>The OP also said he wanted to implement SLIP because it would be easier
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>than
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>>TCP.  I disagree with this.  Hook the PIC to a ENC28J60 and use the AN8=
33
>>TCP/IP stack from Microchip with the ENC28J60 specific MAC module.  Thi=
s
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>
>My idea was to go from the easy to the difficult in terms of
>hardware, but really the problem with the ENC28J60 as far as I understoo=
d
>from people in this group is that one needs to write the MAC software, w=
hich
>I haven't a clue how to do, or is it available now?
>
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>>should be about the same amount of work on the PIC end, and a lot less
>>hassle on the PC end.  Now you've got a server that doesn't need the PC=
 in
>>the loop.
>>
>>If the PC is in the loop, then why bother with TCP on the PIC at all?
>>Communicate any data with the PC using a simple binary protocol over th=
e
>>serial line, and have the PC serve the web pages.
>>
>>Something doesn't add up here.
>>
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