[Elecraft] Give us a network interface

[Brendan Minish]

On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 15:38 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> And Ethernet is beyond that; I doubt anybody really wants a
> transceiver that works over _Ethernet_; they want one that works over
> TCP/IP 

Not only would it need to support a relativity bug free IPv4 Stack but
it would also need to support IPv6. 
IPv6 may not matter much in the short term, especially on a LAN but in
the next few years we will see Domestic Broadband providers rolling out
IPv6 to end users, The big advantage here for users will be that there
will be enough publicly route-able addresses to give every IP capable
device in the house a unique, static address. This will be a big Plus
for remote operating etc.  
The driver for us ISP's is the imminent shortage of IPv4 addresses which
will begin to affect our bottom line shortly.. 

There would be a fair bit of work in implementing TCP/IP properly and
the features it would bring have minority appeal (I am one of that
minority) 
I would prefer to see the K3 stay with the well implemented Serial and
analog audio interfacing that it currently has. That way I can, if I
desire implement my own TCP/IP stack on external hardware running open
source software.  
It would be nice to have Audio I/O available as a digital stream at some
stage though.  

> (if you want it over Appletalk or IPX or DECnet, just raise
> your hand now and somebody will be around to smack you sillier
> momentarily ;). 

DECnet is sitting in the linux kernel, unloved and underused, my vote is
for DECnet and to keep away from all this newfangled TCP/IP stuff 

-- 
73
Brendan EI6IZ