PICs to NICs

[bwts]

Has anyone interfaced a PIC with a standard ISA Ethernet network interface card so that no PC is involved. I have just been given a box of assorted 'out of date' PC hardware and there are a few ISA NICs and had an idea that I could plug them into little roving gadgets, the whole thing would look something like an octopus (the body would hold the hub) on rollerskates.<p>B