Re: Porting the TFE (Re: IIgs and OS X filesharing solutions)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Glenn Jones wrote:

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>TW3100A chip supports 2 modes of operation. Embedded TCP/IP or RAW mode.
>
>In RAW MAC mode, any software based TCP/IP stack should be able to interface
>to this mode. This would include Marinetti at the Link layer or lwIP or uIP.
>
>In the Embedded TCP/IP mode you have direct support for TCP, UDP and IP but
>you are limited to 4 concurrent sessions. Using RAW MAC mode you may or may
>not have that limitation depending on the implementation.
>
>I am just starting to delve into Adams code so I am not sure which direction
>I am headed in just yet.

For the 8-bit Apples, embedded TCP/IP sounds like the better solution.

This bypasses all the issues of running a TCP/IP stack on the //e, yet
provides all the connectivity.  Raw mode would be better suited to
implementing protocols other than TCP/IP.

-michael

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