Amiga Etherbridge Project

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!

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

Download

You can download Etherbridge from Amiga Aminet

History

• 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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