Freescale Semiconductor TWR-MCF52259-Ethenet User Manual page 3

What is Ethernet?
It's a cable I connect to my computer to surf the net
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It's how I do emails
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My home router uses it to let all my computers talk
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Why do we care about Ethernet?
Work is telling me I need it for my embedded product
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It will let me remotely access my embedded product
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Seems to be a cool way to have fast downloads
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How will I use Ethernet?
Just in factory application (i.e. local only)
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Connected to WLAN (i.e. publicly accessible)
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Through VPN only (i.e. secure tunnel)
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