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From: glass@tehran.berkeley.edu (Brett Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Token Ring vs. Ethernet
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Date: 7 Jan 89 01:33:56 GMT
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In article <5786@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> narten@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas Narten) writes:

>In article  <18796@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> glass@tehran.berkeley.edu writes:
>>Second, virtually all of the arguments I received supporting Ethernet
>>were based on the assumption that the TCP/IP protocol suite was being
>>used for internetworking. Needless to say, this assumption can only
>>favor Ethernet.

>Why does TCP/IP favor Ethernet?  Please explain.  

The use of a "foreign" internetworking protocol such as TCP/IP in a
benchmark will favor Ethernet because it will negate the value of many
of the Token Ring's unique features. (The Token Ring may still prevail,
however, depending on how you've set up your benchmurk... er, mark.)

<BG>