At 06:47 AM 06/16/1999 +0100, Geoff Blake wrote:
>>
>> Like it or not, the great vendors will sell their systems with boards
>> like these real soon, laptops with nothing but USB ports already
>> exist. Personally I would have prefered something RS.485 based
>> instead... ;-)
>
>FWIW I would much prefer an ethernet TNC, sort of a router with one or
>more radio ports...
>
>Geoff
Using ethernet is not worthwhile if you expect to send IP frames over ether
to the TNC. It's not *like* a router, it *is* a router, which means you
need an IP stack, and hey! You are now off the topic of this thread!!
Building an IP stack into a TNC, just to accept frames from a linux box,
seems like a huge waste of time. However, if you plan on using ethernet, on
a lower level, just to send frames to the TNC, well, I might agree that it
would be interesting.
I'll put my $.02 in, and state that I would prefer to see something USB based.
That said, I'm not knocking firewire, but, market penetration is nill at
the moment. I wouldn't think designing a product to use a technology that
'may' be popular soon, is such a great Idea.
Then again, as usual, I could be wrong :)
-Steve
