On Jun 7, 2010, at 16:32, Richard Elling wrote:
Please don't confuse Ethernet with IP. Ethernet has no routing and
no back-off other than that required for the link.
Not entirely accurate going forward. IEEE 802.1Qau defines an end-to-
end congestion notification management system:
http://blogs.netapp.com/ethernet/8021qau/
IEEE 802.1aq provides for a link state protocol for finding the
topology of Ethernet network:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest_Path_Bridging
See also the IETF's Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
(TRILL):
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5556
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/trill/
All of this is being done under the rubric of "data center
bridging" (DCB):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center_bridging
Brocade and IBM (?) call this Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE).
Things aren't what they used to was.
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