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Etherbridge - An Amiga Ethernet Network Driver
2019-08-10
## What's that? The Etherbridge device driver is an Amiga SANA2 compliant Ethernet network driver for AmiTCP/IP, Miami, Roadshow or other Amiga TCP stacks. It turns a cheap PC ISA network card in conjunction with a Commodore PC emulator card (A2088, A2286, A2386) into a fully Amiga usable networking card. The software comes along with a graphical configuration program (MUI):  Etherbridge can auto start the MS-DOS driver if needed:  ## Features - "Amiga SANA2 Release 2" compatible - Supports the "New Style Device commands" (NSD) - Starts PC side server program and (MS)Dos packet driver automatically if needed - Works with Commodore Bridgeboards A2088, A2286 and A2386 - Works with every PC network card (you need the right PC/MS-DOS packet driver for it) ## Performance File | Speed | Environment ------- | -------- | ------------- A2088XT | 78kb/s | Roadshow + FTP, 68030/40MHz, 3COM509 (8-bit-slot), Polling Mode A2286 | 330kb/s | Roadshow + FTP, 68040/25MHz, 3COM509 (16-bit-slot), Polling Mode A2386 | ??? | Unknown, A2386 was defect when I was made the speed tests ## Tutorials "MIG" has made a super video using the Etherbridge software in 2014 (in German): [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSlbWRgTUA&t=180s) Thomas Unger also made a super tutorial (in German): -
kickstart.a1k.org/TKA/Tutorials/bridgeboard/etherbridge.html
"Zarch" who is also using Etherbridge (in English): -
www.triflex.dk/2020/07/09/amiga-3000-fan-change-scsi2sd-and-etherbridge-via-a2286/
## Links You can still download Etherbridge from Amiga Aminet: [](http://aminet.net/search?query=Etherbridge) File | Comments ------------ | -------------
pkttools.zip
| MS-DOS packet driver diagnose debugging tools
3C509.com.zip
| MS-DOS Driver for 3c509 card that works in Amiga 8 bit XT slot)
Tool to convert hard disk images from Commodore ABoot to DOSBox emulators: -
https://github.com/MOS6510/AbootHDDConverter
## History ### V2.01(26th Jan. 2019) - EtherPrefs V1.2 included. Fixes a layout bug when used on Workbench screens with resolution of 640x256. - Added 3COM509 DOS driver with XT 8 bit ISA bus support (A2088). - Updated manuals... ### V2.0 (12th Jan 2019) - Completely rebuild Amiga device, EtherPrefs and the PC daemon - Some speed improvements - Bugfix when using keymaps others that German or English: Using a new technique emulating the PC keyboard (starting server daemon) - Stack warning when smaller that 5kb - Rebuild with cross compiler ( GNU-C 3.41 ) on macOS - New "COMMODE" property ("-1": "Automatic") - New silent mode: No requesters are shown on Amiga - Removed superfluous property settings - Bugfix: Removed useless waring when version differs between PC and Amiga daemon - Rebuild EtherPrefs configuration application - PC Server terminates now with 'q' key instead of "any key" - Removed many other small and big bugs (e.g. enforcer hits)... ### V1.2.2 (29th October 2013) - Bugfix: Still a problem with A2088 Bridgeboard. Now it's working. - Bugfix: Interrupt mode (COMMODE=0 in Prefs) was not working correctly. COMMODE=1 (polling) was used instead. - Some code cleanups on DOS Server (the Amiga Device is currently not changed) ### V1.2.1 (13th July 2013) - Bugfix: EBServer.exe is now able to run on A2088 (a file was compiled with 386 option and can't run on an 8088) - Update contact data ### V1.2 (6th July 1999) - config keys changed - configuration program "EtherPrefs" added - speed optimations - bug removed in buffermanagement handling - finished the english manual ### V1.1 (18th Dec 1998, not published) - support of MS-DOS driver (PCTCP compatible) - remove some little bugs - support of Device flag PROMISC - rework of the EBSERVER.EXE - support for A2088 and A2286 - startup busy Windows ### V1.01(16th Aug 1998) - added the default config file "etherbridge.config" ### V1.0(10th Aug 1998) - first public release ### V0.1 (22th May 1997) - Start device development