On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 15 jun 2011, at 16:52, Tony Finch wrote: > >> Ethernet is not designed for huge LANs. If you want that you need >> to make significant changes - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mas90/MOOSE/ > > Hm: > > "Our object is to design a communication system which can grow smoothly to > accommodate several buildings full of personal computers and the facilities > needed for their support." > > Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks > Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs > Communications of the ACM Volume 19 Issue 7, July 1976
If you take that to mean that they intended to support all of that within a single ethernet broadcast domain, then, they most definitely failed. If you take that to mean that they intend it to be a technology which, with multiple ethernet segments, connected by routers, could scale to meet that goal, then, yes, they succeeded. Owen
