I recall early in beowulf development "striped" ethernet
was developed to allow better usage of 10mbps ethernet
(100mbps was, and still is expensive)
I doubt this is what your after though, i dont even know
if its available as a kernel patch or even usefull as
an application protocol
Deam
Alexander Else wrote:
>
> At 17:44 23/09/2000 +1100, you wrote:
> >How about having the nodes in a cycle, where each one transmits, after
> >which the next one either transmits data or a "I'm here but no data
> >to transmit", so the next one could.
>
> <snip>
>
> >Are there drivers to perform this ? What would be involved in writing
> >such drivers ?
>
> What you're describing is basically token ring. I don't know of ethernet
> drivers or cards that support this, but then I'm hardly the authoritative
> source :) Switches, bridges and routers are all affordable and will work
> to increase the number of broadcast domains and reduce the saturation of
> each segment. This is probably what you'd be wanting to do in a situation
> where utilisation is becoming a problem.
>
> Alexander.
>
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