Adding ethernet connectivity to a STM32-Nucleo

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This is an article about Ethernet connectivity implementation with STM32-Nucleo and Arduino Ethernet Shield.

It is a very good tutorial for ARM mbed platform users who want to add Ethernet Connectivity with Arduino Ethernet Shield.

Author says,

One drawback of the Nucleo ecosystem is the lack of a version with ethernet connectivity or a dedicated shield officially supported by ST.
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In the Arduino world the official Ethernet Shield is the most popular solution to add Internet connectivity to Arduino. The ethernet shield is based on a network processor become really popular thanks to its diffusion in the Arduino Community: W5100 from WIZnet.

Hardware and software requirements

Author assumes that the readers have these,

One of the STM32Nucleo boards available on the market – I’ve successfully tested the code both on a Nucleo-F401RE and a Nucleo-F103RB board.
An Arduino Ethernet Shield, or one of its clones available on eBay for less than $10.
Some patch cables to reroute Arduino ICSP pins to Nucleo morpho headers – more about this later.
A complete Eclipse/GCC ARM tool-chain with required plugins as described in this post. I’ll assume that the whole tool-chain in installed in C:\STM32Toolchain or ~/STM32Toolchain if you have a UNIX-like system.
A basic test project for your Nucleo version as described in this post.