[124875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed Apr 7 06:24:44 2010
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: lists@internetpolicyagency.com (Roland Perry)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 05:23:55 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <q+3r0pkcxDvLFAJd@perry.co.uk> from "Roland Perry" at Apr 07,
2010 09:03:40 AM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> For me, as an SME user, I started using Ethernet when Dlink introduced
> an ISA card [DE205] which had a 4-port hub built in (actually 5-port if
> you counted the internal one), at not a great deal more than a normal
> 10Base-T card. I think it was about $250, when a typical desktop PC was
> $2500.
>
> [...]
>
> Price was a major feature, but interoperability and backwards
> compatibility were the tipping points.
Ah, yes, backwards compatibility: implementing the fantastic feature of
breaking the network... we all remember the fun of what happened when
someone incorrectly unhooked a 10base2 network segment; D-Link managed
to one-up that on the theoretically more-robust 10baseT/UTP by
introducing a card that'd break your network when you powered off the
attached PC.
Designer of that deserved to be whipped with some RG-58. :-)
... JG
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