Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

[Kris Kirby]

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.

-- 
Kris Kirby 
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