Dennis wrote:

> For "Fairness" gaps in between frames are better
> as you approach capacity of your wire.

Isn't there some ethernet requirement (implemented on the NIC) that a
transmitter holds off the wire a little to give other NICs enough time
to notice there's nothing being transmitted?

The sequence of events would be something like:

NIC1                            NIC2                    time |
                                                             v
start xmit
host queues next packet
xmit finishes
start "back-to-back" delay
                                sense idle wire
                                start xmit
sense access from NIC2
"back-to-back" delay ends
wait for wire idle
                                xmit finishes
sense idle
start xmit


Or did I just fall asleep reading the spec and dream this.


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