Aw nuts! Look what's available now. I'd have one but it's just a shade too expensive at $355 US.

http://www.invector.nu/embedded/iet6502sbc.asp

Lee.

Nice.
How about www.xgamestation.com ?
6811 or arm and socket for '816.

Here's the IC in a board for $79

http://www.embeddedethernet.com/

I thought about building one based on their design and interfacing it to a 6502. Obviously writing the code to do things like FTP is going to be the hard part.

Cheers,

Vince

Having done a little 8 bit networking code so far I prefer the 3Com 3C509B chip. Once you've jumped through the initialisation hoops it's one of the easiest chips to drive with a deep FIFO Rx buffer that buffers not just the packets, but the status and interrupts for each packet. This offloads an awfull lot of otherwise tedious housekeeping. The 3Com also has a bigger buffer (8k usually), always handy, and lastly I have a lot of 3Com cards.

So far I can do ARP, ICMP echo and TCP/IP connects. Next is the HTTP GET and HEAD server. I also want to do BOOTFP and TFTP.

Lee.