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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Esben Nielsen <simlo@phys.au.dk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ArcNet and 2.6.8.1
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:02:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095976927.7332.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.10409232336180.21511-100000@da410.ifa.au.dk>

On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 22:46, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> ArcNet can't compete with ethernet as LAN: It can only run 10 Mbit whereas
> 100 Mbit ethernet can run roughly 50 Mbit in practice.

We can saturate 100Mbit ethernet full duplex at a steady 100Mbit, GBit
on decent boxes/cards.

> But ArcNet doesn't degrade in performance when you try to fill it up as
> ethernet does. Thus ArcNet is very good for real-time applications - and
> is used for such in the industry. But that is not an area where people
> usually use Linux.

Nod. Its fair to say you may well be "the arcnet user" by now however
8). Most real time people I've met use fieldbus nowdays for control
systems or ethernet and handshaking plus local timers



  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-23 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-23 15:08 ArcNet and 2.6.8.1 Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 15:16 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-09-23 20:59   ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 21:01     ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 21:46       ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 22:02         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-24 14:07           ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 22:24         ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 22:52           ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-24 17:44             ` Martin Mares
2004-09-24 17:57             ` Lee Revell
2004-09-24 17:24         ` Joel Jaeggli

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