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In article <12454674092.150.A.ALDERSON@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU> A.ALDERSON@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
>You've missed something.  Most ethernets aren't populated with just two hosts.
>The wire is going to be busy most of the time, so you have to read everything
>on the wire to see if you are missing anything.  That sounds like a dedicated
An ethernet busy most of the time is pretty unusable. Actually, a load higher
than ~35-40 percent is absolutely maximum for getting things through.
But, of course, you can consider that as a busy ethernet.
>processor (of any type) to me.

>A dedicated 8MHz 68000 could JUST keep up.  It isn't going to have time to do
>much in the way of processing.
Probably, but this task is mostly done by a special designed coprocessor,
often taking care of both address filtering and moving packets between the
network and the host computer's memory, such as the NS8390 (as on
Apples/3Coms EtherTalk card), or the Intel 82586.

>Rich Alderson
>Stanford University
Ragnad Sundblad.