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Re: Point to Point Ethernet
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:26:26 -0400
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:01:20 -0400, Andre Oppermann <nanog-list () nrg4u com> wrote:
... completely do away with ARP, MAC addresses and all that stuff.
Removing "all that stuff" means it's no longer ethernet.
Do you think this is useful? Maybe vendors will hear me/us.
No. I do not.Ethernet is not a point-to-point technology. It is a multi-point (broadcast, bus, etc.) technology with DECADES of optimization and adoption. No one has gotten IEEE to adopt a larger frame size, and you want to drop *fundamental* elements of ethernet?!?
--Ricky
Current thread:
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet, (continued)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet William Herrin (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet William Herrin (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet William Allen Simpson (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Andre Oppermann (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 08)
- RE: Point to Point Ethernet Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Randy Bush (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet sthaug (Jul 08)
- RE: Point to Point Ethernet Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 08)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Saqib Ilyas (Jul 09)
- RE: Point to Point Ethernet Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 09)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Cayle Spandon (Jul 09)
- Re: Point to Point Ethernet Zartash Uzmi (Jul 09)