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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Bare Bones Adaptation
- Message-ID: <pe6p9e0@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Sep2.222815.9025@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <9224810.18254@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:16:50 GMT
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- In article <9224810.18254@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage) writes:
- > ...
- > But your question is similar to asking "what is it
- > about Ethernet that needs to know about the next protocol layer up?",
- > and the answer is "nothing, really". ...
-
-
- Quite true, but on the other hand, some layer violating can pay
- large dividends in speed.
-
- One common example where having the link layer peak even fiddle with
- the bits is "cslip" at 2400 to 38 Kbit/sec. Other, less well known
- cases exist on FDDI at 100 Mbit/sec.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-