ethernet and switches, was Re: [rescue] Mozilla Firefox

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 @ 14:02 -0400, Dave McGuire said:

[subject changed]

>   It's kinda like taking a poorly-performing Ethernet network and 
> making it fully switched to alleviate congestion.  That's modifying a 
> very basic underlying part of the design of Ethernet (the whole point 
> of CSMA/CD) in order to make it perform well.

OK... but what is the proper solution there?

I don't really see how ethernet could have survived without violating
it.


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