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Subject: You might like this.
Hi Tom,
A note a thanks for tomsrtbt .. and thanks for helping out with
the slattach -h problem so promptly,... it was certainly very
crucial piece of help to me.
I used tomsrtbt to set up a linux router to demo something I put
on the 'Net today, and I thought you, as someone who appreciates
the value of an elegant hack that is very very compact and and
yet very very complete, would certainly appreciate.
What I hacked together starting from a really insane moment of
inspiration := iPic is a web-server and a TCP/IP stack
implemented in about 256 instructions of assembly .... I have
enclosed more details below.
I needed a SLIP-router to connect the iPic web-server chip to. I
put it up on the net connected to a Dell PC that has Windows NT
installed on it. I commandeered that PC, and used tomsrtbt to run
linux (w/o messing the harddisk), and bingo I had a router. The
fact that you had those most thoughtful man pages (you are an
angel) was helpful more than once.
And even more that tomsrtbt does a regular LILO boot, so I can
give the bootparams to make it ignore the pesky second ethernet
card that was in the machine and causing no end of grief. This
was crucial .. really crucial. LRP does not do that. Nobody does
LILO on their floppy linux. They lose big.
And you... I owe you a big one.
-- //Shrikumar
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 14 14:26:19 1999
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:26:14 -0400
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Subject: The iPic ... a wee tee cee pee stack.
Hello,
I'd like to announce what is a really tiny implementation of
TCP/IP stack and a really really tiny web-server.
This is currently running on a PIC, a puny 12C5609 8-pin device.
The silicon itself, and this must be obvious to all on this list,
is about the size of a match-head.
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
Yes, it is true genuine TCP/IP, with no sleight of hand, no
prorperitary protocol converters or other nonsense. It talks SLIP
and TCP/IP as its mother tongue, and is connected to a Linux
router running SLIP straight out of the box. (slattach and
ifconfig .. simple and straight).
-- //Shrikumar
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