Having a chip
with an embedded IP stack is useful for a lot of things;
Yes. But this has its own set of problems and limitations. It can be a
good tool, but only for its special set of applications.
That said, this is clearly the future for small microcomputers, offloading
the TCP overhead to a separate dedicated device. Commodore NICs are moving
from Crystal 8900-type (RRNet) to Wiznet-type devices,
for example.
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