kerrisnow,

 I just attended a Microchip seminar yesterday and they spoke of this 
 very part.   Responses to your questions are listed below by the
 respective question. And as an FYI, MPLAB 7.10 now has a simulator 
 logic analyzer.   It can be accessed from the "VIEW' drop down menu.
 Hope this helps you out.  Let me know how you make out.

                                           Regards,

                                             Jim


> I want to make an embeded webserver with the ENC28J60.
> I downloaded the tcpip stack software from the microchip
>site, and now I have these questions:
> 
> 1. First of all, I do not know which C compiler to use, is there
> a free one on the microchip site?

  A.  It is intended to be used with PIC C18 compiler from Microchip.
      It will compile with one other compiler that Microchip uses, but
      I don't recall the name right off hand.

      You can download a demo version of the PICC18 compiler from 
      Microchip.   This is a fully functional unhampered version. 
      But after 30 day trial is up, the optimization turns off, and 
      the compiled file size gets extremely huge.  But other than that,
      this is the same compiler you would buy from them.
      I don't have first hand experience with this.   It's just what we
      were told at the seminar.

> 
> 2. I downloaded the tcpip software, and I see that there are three
> files called
> 
> 18c452.lkr
> 18f452.lkr
> 18f8720.lkr
> 
> Does this mean that this software will run on those chips as-is with no
> editing, and would these devices interface to the ENC28J60?

  A  Yes.   Again according to the people at the seminar.
> 
> 3. How do I link my web pages to the device?

  A About linking pages I don't know.   But you can serve pages by 
    putting the HTML code for each page in processor memory, or have a
    seperate memory for the pagers and have a routine in the micro to
    access them and transmit them over the network.
> 
> 4. Do I need to know anything else regarding the software side of
> things?

  A Possibly.
> 
> 5. Lastly, do you think this software will be available on 18f2455?

  A.  Again, I can't say for sure, but the FAE's at the seminar said
      that the stack will run on virtually all of the 18 series parts 
      except for the very low end parts.   It will probably even run 
      on a 16F877(A).
> 
> tnx
> 
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