"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
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What processor? Off-the-shelf components used to interface cheap
computers
to TCP/IP? http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/f/network.htm
http://www.chipcatalog.com/Cat/99.htm

These chips are all tranceivers or basic ethernet chips. They need a
processor to run a TCP/IP stack.


Here's a whole Ethernet IP communications device on one IC...
http://www.anybus.com/eng/products/p...ctType=AnyBus-
IC

Nice devices, but they are expensive. Similar devices from Lantronix for
instance do the entire TCP/IP trick for you, but they cost $40-$50 in large
quantities. That would increase the average sales price $100-$150 for each
ethernet based instrument.

Yeah, they'd raise the price $10/unit, I suppose.
See above....

Meindert