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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Splitting Algorithms for CSMA/CD
Keywords: 82596 CSMA/CD FCFS splitting
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.183227.19729@comm.wang.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 18:32:27 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms.
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I was reading the documentation on Intel's new Ethernet 
chip, the 82596.  It says that the chip supports a mode
in which a splitting algorithm is used to resolve collisions
instead of simple random wait (yeah, with binary exponential
backoff...).  My question is:

Is anybody using this?  Does anybody out there think that
this might be fun to do?  I guess that it would provide 
minimal performance improvements for standard LANs, but
it might help a lot for LANs which cover large distances.

I was intrigued to note that a vendor had actually implemented
it, I thought it was sort of an idle academic speculation.

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Lyle                  Wang           lws@capybara.comm.wang.com
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