19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
1:44 p.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Ethernet seems ideal - high-speed and flexible. What I'm not sure of is how
such a box would get configured with its IP address, nor once it was
configured how it would be found on the network by a controlling system
application somewhere.
Maybe DHCP solves half that problem; can a device broadcast on the network and
find a DHCP server without being told of its IP address in advance? Even
assuming it can, and the DHCP server assigns it an IP address, I'm not sure
how client controlling machines would then locate it on the network, though.
Doubtless both questions are easily answered by a trained network admin,
though :-)
Last thing we probably need though is something that relies on DHCP, or on any
particular flavour of OS being present on any machine on the network.
[All of this is on-topic enough, but is it of interest to the majority? Or is
it something better taken to a mailing list for those interested that's set up
with the specific aim of bashing out some ideas and hopefully getting
something closer to realisation?]
cheers
Jules
Probably use
something a bit more common, say an ARM? Not that I
have anything against a Z80 (or Z180, or EZ80). Just that extra
horsepower can be very nice, even if you don't need it right away.
If you are willing to go to an ARM, then I would put on say 16M and
have lots of room for a complete image - an ethernet inferface would
also be easy (built into many ARM devices), and would allow fast
transfer of images.