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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.

42 Can I hook up an Amiga 500,1000, 1200 to ethernet?

    
Yes, Almost all Amiga models can be hooked to the ethernet. Using the serial port
is the cheapest, but the fastest is a direct connect  using an ethernet adapter
card.

For the 1200    Interworks   has an ethernet card called   ICard   that  will support
the major protocols. They also have some Amiga peer to peer software products for
the ICard.

For the 500 and 1000:

The   A2065   has reportedly been used successfully with third-party expansion
boxes, such as Bodega Bay.  It has  also been reported that  the A2065 card can be
used with the Slingshot expansion device used  with an Amiga 500 and a SupraDrive
500XP's pass-through. 

The A2065 has been superseded by the   Ameristar      A4066   .   Don't know if it
works with the A500 or A1000 expansion buses.

The serial port approach for TCP/IP is supported by:

  several flavors of   AmigaNOS  
    AmiTCP  
    I-Net 225  
    Miami  
    TermiteTCP  

all of which require   SLIP   or   PPP   to use the serial port.   DECnet   and   DNET  
can be also be used  with the serial port.
    

 

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