Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267516AbUIWXRw (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:17:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267538AbUIWXRZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:17:25 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:3557 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267516AbUIWXEw (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:04:52 -0400 Subject: Re: ArcNet and 2.6.8.1 From: Alan Cox To: Esben Nielsen Cc: "David S. Miller" , yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1095976927.7332.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:02:08 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 22 On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 22:46, Esben Nielsen wrote: > ArcNet can't compete with ethernet as LAN: It can only run 10 Mbit whereas > 100 Mbit ethernet can run roughly 50 Mbit in practice. We can saturate 100Mbit ethernet full duplex at a steady 100Mbit, GBit on decent boxes/cards. > But ArcNet doesn't degrade in performance when you try to fill it up as > ethernet does. Thus ArcNet is very good for real-time applications - and > is used for such in the industry. But that is not an area where people > usually use Linux. Nod. Its fair to say you may well be "the arcnet user" by now however 8). Most real time people I've met use fieldbus nowdays for control systems or ethernet and handshaking plus local timers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/