Re: [fuse-emulator-devel] W5100 emulation in Fuse

[Philip K. <ph...@sh...>]

Andrea,

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 8:57 AM Andrea <mar...@gm...> wrote:

> I see FUSE has a W5100 Ethernet card emulation
>

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So this is the question I have for you: have you got any example of a ZX80
> software that does DHCP
> and this works with your W5100 emulation?
> If yes, I am really curious to see how you did it.
>

The simple answer here is "no" - what I realised while writing the W5100
emulation was

1) that DHCP was hard (and needed root access, which I wanted to avoid)
2) The Spectranet (which is why Fuse has the W5100 emulation) can function
with only TCP and UDP.

so I took the easy route and just did TCP and UDP :-) As you've
probably noticed, Fuse's W5100 support isn't really "emulation" but more
proxying through to the OS's underlying stacks.

Cheers,

Phil