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From: narten@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas Narten)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Token Ring vs. Ethernet
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Date: 7 Jan 89 16:10:51 GMT
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In article  <18809@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> glass@tehran.berkeley.edu (Brett Glass) writes:
>>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.)

OK, name a higher layer protocol that is able to take advantage of the
"unique features" of the ring but that also performs poorly when those
features are removed.  How useful is this protocol? How general?
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Thomas Narten
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