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Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.
From: Roland Perry <nanog () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:40:58 +0000
I suspect what the convertor does is take the frame, and send it out the USB in whatever format it needs to be data intact.
It sends highly processed(/extracted) data to a device driver running on the PC. Just like an ethernet adapter on a PC-card would. If it were in any sense still "ethernet" data, there would have to be an "ethernet card" inside the PC on the 'inside end' of the USB. And there isn't.
(Apart from anything else, the ethernet cable might running at up to 100MBps, and the USB at perhaps a tenth of that on a good day).
-- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Christopher Aldridge (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Roland Perry (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Randy Bush (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Ron da Silva (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Ron da Silva (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Stephen J. Wilcox (Feb 29)
- Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Roland Perry (Feb 29)