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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: How many physical addresses belong to 1 Ethernet station?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.200117.19256@amd.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 20:01:17 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.172918.24929@forwiss.uni-passau.de> grass@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Grass) writes:
|To save up these ressources the Ethernet controller hardware (chip?) could
|be provided with *all* addresses it shall respond to. Address decoding is
|done by hardware. Only messages with according destination addresses are
|passed.

HP has a new bridge which uses a pair of Am99C10A Content Addressable
Memories.  These devices can compare up to 256 48-bit addresses in 70 ns.
HP's bridge also had a 32-bit RISC processor (Am29000).

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