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Significance of physical identifier

Hello, I have a doubt regarding physical identifier of an Ethernet physical IC. What is the importance of their physical identifier. when I compared DP83848C and DP83640 and found not much difference in their registers. While programming, only when these identifiers are valid its starts its actual working. What might be the importance of this identifier?

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  • But I am asking for a helpful link because I am beginner to HTTP server.

    Then try with something simpler than HTTP. First off, see if you can get a response to a ping from the board. Get that going first. In all probability, assuming that the HTTP project isn't fundamentally broken, the HTTP functionality would then likely just work.

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  • But I am asking for a helpful link because I am beginner to HTTP server.

    Then try with something simpler than HTTP. First off, see if you can get a response to a ping from the board. Get that going first. In all probability, assuming that the HTTP project isn't fundamentally broken, the HTTP functionality would then likely just work.

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