[124815] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Apr 5 12:43:25 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <q2u9418aca71004050909oc9d1bbe1zcf40efe532f77c25@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:42:43 -0400
To: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:09 02PM, Jay Nakamura wrote:
>> negotiation and backward compatibility. I think that one of the
>> reasons for the continuing success of "Ethernet" technologies has been
>> implementation simplicity and 100% compatibility above the level of
>> the NIC.
>
> I would have attributed the success of Ethernet to price!
>
>
You've got the causality wrong -- it wasn't cheap, way back when.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
