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From: joe@oilean.uucp (Joe McGuckin)
Newsgroups: alt.unix.wizards,comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Help w- ethernet device
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.085844.1573@oilean.uucp>
Date: 21 Dec 90 08:58:44 GMT
Organization: Island Software
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I'm building a piece of communications hardware and I'd like it to have an ethernet interface. I`ve seen
Imagen laser printers like this - so I know that it's been done before. 

My problem is that I don't have a clear idea of how a program running on a Sun will establish a connection
with the device. Can the hardware make an unsolicited connection across the ethernet & start up it's
control software?

Does anyone out there in netland know about this sort of thing? Please send mail as I don't normally
read these groups.

Thanks,

  Joe


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Island Software          joe@parcplace.com
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