Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> 1. I'm using a PIC24HJ256GP610 with the SPI ENC chip.

I hope this isn't a religious question, but what's the best PIC chip 
that has Ethernet? Also can it be programmed and debugged in-circuit 
with the Pickit2?

I had in mind an idea for making a very simple bi-port router. The only 
problem I had was that I couldn't find a chip that could interface with 
*two* ethernet ports.

In order to get a normal PIC Ethernet chip to work with two ethernet 
ports, I'd had the following idea:
    * Get another chip that acts as a two-port or three-port Ethernet 
hub so that my own chip can tag into the hub and receive frames from 
both router ports.
    * When I want to send a frame, I can have a multiplexer that 
switches between what port to send a frame out on.

To be honest I don't know if it would work at all?

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