Re: what about 48 bits?

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:57:46AM +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
> Has anybody considered lobbying the IEEE to do a point to point version
> of Ethernet to gets rid of addressing fields? Assuming an average 1024
> byte packet size, on a 10Gbps link they're wasting 100+ Mbps. 100GE /
> 1TE starts to make it even more worth doing.

If you're lobbying to have the IEEE do something intelligent to Ethernet
why don't you start with a freaking standardization of jumbo frames. The
lack of a real standard and any type of negotiation protocol for two
devices under different administrative control are all but guaranteeing
end to end jumbo frame support will never be practical.

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