On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:11:17PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: > > Correct. And there you have minimum frame spacing requirements (IFG) > > and (e.g. with 10Base2 networks) minimum distance between stations > > attached to the bus to allow CSMA/CD work correctly. > > Interframe gap has no dependancy on station vector. The dependancy > for CSMA/CD was bits on the wire and the alogorithm backed off until > it was free to transmit. > > Are you talking about something else?
I cannot remember the details unfortunately. It was some limits on transmission to ensure that the collision recovery could work correctly. I thought it was related to IFG. BTW, I did mention IFG and the minimum distance between stations on bus as seperate issues, not connected issues. Was that a misunderstanding? Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
