Re: Uthernet programming question

[ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt)]

Hi,

>After looking at the data sheet, I realized that there is a slim
>chance of using Uthernet without a full IP stack and only using MAC
>communication to transmit data since there is an on-chip 802.3 handler
>and a packet buffer.  Is this even remotely feasible to explore
>further?

I don't see how/why Uhternet should be tied to IP in any way. It's
just Ethernet. In example you could implement PPPoE if you like.

BTW: Not a great example because it actually does IP but however
showing how small you can get is UDPSlave. You can even type it in
from the keyboard. So maybe not a "full IP stack" can still mean
compatible to IP, which is generally desirable as it greatly
simplifies programming a communication peer using the BSD socket
paradigm on *IX / WIn32 - as UDPSlave demonstrates.

http://www.paradroid.net/udpslave/

Best, Oliver