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Re: what about 48 bits?
From: Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:46:37 +0930
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:57:41 GMT msokolov () ivan Harhan ORG (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org> wrote:Has anybody considered lobbying the IEEE to do a point to point version of Ethernet to gets rid of addressing fields? [...] Actually the minimum 64 byte packet size could probably go too, as that was only there for collision detection.And maybe rename it to something else while you are at it? All those people who have hijacked the name "Ethernet" for PtP links (all those "Ethernet" UTP media are really PtP at the physical level, unlike real coaxial Ethernet) are despicable thieves - now those of us who are still using the original coaxial Ethernet in the shared bus mode are left without a clear, unique and distinctive name we once had to refer to what we use.
Actually the IEEE have never called it "Ethernet", it's all been IEEE 802.3 / XXX{BASE|BROAD}-BLAH. "Ethernet", assuming version 1 and 2, strictly means thick coax, vampire taps and AUI connectors running at (half-duplex) 10Mbps. I saw some of it once. Regards, Mark.
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- Re: what about 48 bits? Michael Sokolov (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Mark Smith (Apr 04)
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- Re: what about 48 bits? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Steven Bellovin (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Mark Smith (Apr 04)
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