> 
>  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

Thanks, I have sorted all of that from all the answers I received here,
but this only reaffairms for me that these points are as I want them.
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