[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the best method to communicate between a device and a server?

[Rusty Haddock]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
    >Kipton Moravec wrote:
    >> Thanks all. I think I have it narrowed to SSH and HTTP that is a big
    >> help.
    >> 
    >> This is for a $8 16-bit microcontroller, so it does not have a *nix, but
    >> has a Ethernet stack and already supports HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, and FTP. I
    >> do not know if it supports SSH. But I am looking into it.

Sorry, but an $8 16-bit microcontroller will not have the memory capacity
nor the computational "UMPH!" to perform the encryption for SSH in a
reasonable time... or at all!

If this thing could have supported SSH it would have been labelled so
right along with HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, and FTP.

	-Rusty-
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