ethernet to parallel/serial converter

["Leonardo Boselli" <leo@dicea.unifi.it>]

Sorry for an hardware question:
I would need a [_relatively_ cheap and small] device with the following 
capabilities:
 a. one ethernet input
 b. at least 16 bit of output 
This device should be addressed as a normal ethernet device, with a 
standard tcp stack, yopu just send two or more byte that would apopear 
on the output.
optionally one byte of input .
End of requirement
Someone has helps to do or even a project to build it ?
(even an USB one would fit)

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Leonardo Boselli
Nucleo Informatico e Telematico del Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze , V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
tel +39 0554796431 cell +39 3488605348 fax +39 055495333
http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo