Re: [SLUG] Synchronous network ?

[Ken Yap]

>Yes, but token ring involves specialised hardware. I's there a way of
>adding on this functionality to standard twisted-pair/coax ethernets ?

No. The carrier sense collision detect exponential backoff algorithm is
hardwired into the Ethernet controller chips.


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