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Re: Ethernet for RCX?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:56:18 GMT
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Simon Brooke <SIMON@JASMINE.ORGnospam.UK>
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John A. Tamplin wrote:
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> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Tony Toyofuku wrote:
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> > Has anyone put any thought into getting the RCX to output to an Ethernet
> > interface?
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> > Of course, what I'm really interested in is an entire TCP/IP
> > stack- Ethernet hardware, RCX Ethernet driver, IP stack, TCP stack, and
> > a BSD sockets API, but I don't think such a beast exists.
I really don't think you'll do this in 32k and still have space for
application layer code (mind you, if I'm wrong, I'll be the first to
cheer...)
> Well, I plan on building networking code, but it won't be full IP. However,
> it would be easy to have an IP proxy running on the host computer and
> relaying packets over the IR.
This looks a more promising start. Use a *very* simplified protocol over
the IR link, have packet filtering done at the static (non-RCX) end so
that only relevent packets get sent. Oh, and do the buffering at the
static end.
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| (...) I don't know how you would get to it without hacking hardware and putting an Ethernet controller in external address space, and then writing the code for it. One problem: Ethernet needs a far amount of buffer space to keep up with packets and (...) (28 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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