How creaky is Ethernet the spec?

Posted Oct 29, 2009 4:57 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: How creaky is Ethernet the spec? by agrover
Parent article: JLS2009: Generic receive offload

Makes sense ... hadn't thought of it that way. If there are no more collisions, is there any reason to keep collision detection in the spec? I seem to recall the packet preamble had to be long enough to cover the collision detection. Would it add anything to get rid of that?

It's funny how the old cable strung from one node to the next has stuck in my mind even tho I haven't seen that kind of install in ages.