General
The Etherbridge software 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 cards in conjunctions with a Commodore PC emulator card (A2088, A2286, A2386) into a fully Amiga usable networking card. The package is freeware!
MIG made a super video using the Etherbridge software in 2014 (German):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/MSDOS packet driver for it)
Tutorial
Thomas Unger has written a Tutorial for Etherbridge (in German).Download
You can download Etherbridge from Amiga Aminet
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...
- 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)...
- 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)
- 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
- config keys changed
- configuration program "EtherPrefs" added
- speed optimations
- bug removed in buffermanagement handling
- finished the english manual
- support of MSDOS 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
- added the default config file "etherbridge.config"
- - first public release
- Start device development
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