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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: ether collision backoff
Keywords: non-standard
Message-ID: <42686@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 8 Oct 89 19:46:54 GMT
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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(I'm sorry to talk about ethernets here, but I don't think enough
knowledgable people read other forums.)

At last week's Interop, I was told that a large workstation company's
products can be configured to use non-standard retransmission-after-collision
delays.

Is this true?  Does it cause big problems, as my informant implied?
Exactly which parameter(s) is(are) changed--the exponent, the multiplier,
the algorithm?  Does it really help NFS that much?  Is there a relevant
de-facto or de-jurie standard?  Should Silicon Graphics do the same thing?
Are the Protocol Police about to squash the idea?

Vernon Schryver
Silicon Graphics
vjs@sgi.com