The following link connects to a web page full of information about the Maxim/Dallas Network Enabled microcontroller.

http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes....792#80c400

The chip provides callable interfaces that support a BSD socket layers API. A very good starting point for you to research how to use a sockets layer to access a particular ethernet/internet device would be to study how to do this same type of thing in say VB6 on a PC platform. There is a plethora of information to absorb in this arena and once you learn how that is done you can translate that to a tini implementation on your microcontroller.

One way to implement the type of system that Craig has suggested will require that you veer away from the sample APPs that show how to make an embedded web server and instead build a program that has the functions of a rudimentary web site browser type function.

Alternatively it may be suitable to implement an SNMP type service. There is a detailed two part FAQ about that here:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/snmp-faq/part1/

Michael Karas