[hpsdr] Hermes Host ID

[Brian Lloyd]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ken N9VV <n9vv at wowway.com> wrote:

> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
> Hi Al, *CONGRATS* on your new state-of-the-art Radio.
>
> Do you have "20+ devices on your LAN" ??? the protocol of Ethernet is
> CSMACD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**CSMACD<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSMACD>which presents lots
> of conflicts and lower performance as the number of items increases.
>

No, actually not. The original COAX version of Ethernet was CSMA/CD but
modern UTP Ethernet uses switches which buffer Ethernet frames to prevent
collisions. So a single Ethernet switch in your network will do the job.
Yes, it should be a Gig-E switch but those are pretty cheap now.

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