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How creaky is Ethernet the spec?How creaky is Ethernet the spec?Posted Oct 29, 2009 11:08 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: How creaky is Ethernet the spec? by agrover Parent article: JLS2009: Generic receive offload
All 1Gb and above Ethernet is full duplex, point to point, no hubs (only switches) and therefore collisions are not an issue.So it doesn't really make sense to call it Ethernet any more; mostly just a marketing name.
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How creaky is Ethernet the spec? Posted Oct 29, 2009 14:01 UTC (Thu) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
Doesn't make sense to call it CSMACD if there won't ever be collisions at the
very least.
How creaky is Ethernet the spec? Posted Oct 30, 2009 15:47 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] There appears to be interoperability that justifies calling the new protocol Ethernet. You can replace one link of an existing Ethernet network with a 10G one and it all still works -- and not by simply negotiating down to the old protocol. My understanding is that is what makes the 1500 byte MTU a constraint on 10GE. Also: Can you replace a 1G ethernet card in a computer with a 10G and now talk at full speed (to a 10G peer) without replacing the device driver or anything else in the computer?
How creaky is Ethernet the spec? Posted Oct 30, 2009 20:59 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
There are lots of 10G cards that also do 1G, but I don't think you'll find
any device drivers for 1G-only cards that work with the quite different hardware that does 10G :))
Fundamentally though most of the hardware (as in the physical components
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