Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!im4u!halley!bc
From: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet utilisation
Message-ID: <355@halley.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 21:25:35 GMT
References: <47@xenon.UUCP> <9110@g.ms.uky.edu> <5038@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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Keywords: ethernet csma/cd utilisation

In article <5038@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> mar@athena.mit.edu (Mark A. Rosenstein) writes:
>                                   In this case several hosts will be
>waiting for the end of one packet so that they can start sending, and
>may all start at the same time, causing a collision, then backoff and
>retry.

Well, sort of.   There is no listening for the end of a packet.  Just
randomizing and trying again and listening for a collision.

-bc
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