> Not too hard. Perhaps you're imagining less restrictive requirements for it than I am. > 1-Wire, a very low end LAN from Dallas Semiconductor, would be good

> Not too hard. Perhaps you're imagining less restrictive requirements for it than I am. > 1-Wire, a very low end LAN from Dallas Semiconductor, would be good for this. i'm aware of 1-wire. it is master-slave. can you outline exactly how you plan to use it in an unknown and reconfigurable topology, and how many separate master and slave interfaces you expect to have in each brick?