On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:29:23PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Wiznet:
> 
> + TCP/IP included. Implementation of socket API for QL probably pretty easy.
> + Reliefs slow 68008 main processor. But then I seriously question what
>   original QL owners are going to do with this thing anyway.
> - Only 4 parallel connections. That's 4 more than QLs usually have,
>   but still not exactly many.
> - IPv4 only with no way to upgrade if it is ever deemed necessary.
> 
> All in all I'd say a real Ethernet chip would be much more
> future-proof... if you can get the software for it working.
> 
Of course the W5300 is also a proper ethernet chip as well, linux has
a driver for it not using the internal stack!

G

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