Julian Elischer wrote: > > plip? > Ideally, no. The ethernet card makes the data rather easy to handle into other means (like a radio modem). It's already serialized, packetized, has a MAC address for a link address, and it's easy to get seperate RX and TX lines out of the card, even if it is 10Base-2 (BNC). The idea is to eliminate other hardware in order to drop cost and complication.
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