Date   : Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:18:18
From   : "Richard Gellman" <splodge@...>
Subject: Re: Econet via internet

> I notice the latest version of PC BeebEm has econet support, with a
> facility to map station numbers to ip addresses.
> Would it therefore be possible, to have an arc that was connected to
> both the internet and local econet to act as a gateway between the two ?
>
> E.g. could a PC running BeebEm communicate with a remote econet network
> comprising 8-bit beebs and arc fileserver in such a way that it just
> appears as another station on that network ? How would the arc need to
> be configured to allow this ?
>
> Chris.
>

Theoretically this would work, if of course you had fileserver software
runing on the emulated beeb (unless you only want the somewhat limited
peer-to-peer Econet).

However, when I tested BeebEm's econet support against my AUN (Econet over
UDP) fileserver code, I didn't get much response. I couldn't even see
BeebEm putting out UDP packets :(

IIRC, the Arc has an app available from Acorn to turn a station into an
effective Econet/AUN bridge. I'm not sure what the limitations are of this
or whether it can bridge between network types, or even if it supports
native Econet.

-- Richard