On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:56:46 -0000, "Graham." <me@privacy.com> wrote:
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>"Graham Murray" <newspost@gmurray.org.uk> wrote in message
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>> Steve <steev_l@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
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>>> How necessary is SPI in reality, for a home router?[/color]
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>> Would you even know is a router has SPI unless you look at the part
>> numbers of the chips on the board and see if a) They support the Serial
>> Peripheral Interface and b) that the appropriate pins are wired to other
>> chip(s) which also support SPI. Whether SPI is used should be a decision
>> for the hardware designer and be of no interest to the user, unless
>> the SPI bus is brought to a connector for an add-on board - but even
>> then unless the user is going to design his own add-on board this will
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>I think we are talking about Stateful Packet Inspection here,
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We are indeed.