North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Addressing versus Routing (Was: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter)
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:11:17PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: > > Correct. And there you have minimum frame spacing requirements (IFG) > > and (e.g. with 10Base2 networks) minimum distance between stations > > attached to the bus to allow CSMA/CD work correctly. > > Interframe gap has no dependancy on station vector. The dependancy > for CSMA/CD was bits on the wire and the alogorithm backed off until > it was free to transmit. > > Are you talking about something else? I cannot remember the details unfortunately. It was some limits on transmission to ensure that the collision recovery could work correctly. I thought it was related to IFG. BTW, I did mention IFG and the minimum distance between stations on bus as seperate issues, not connected issues. Was that a misunderstanding? Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [email protected] -- [email protected] -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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