On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 15 jun 2011, at 16:52, Tony Finch wrote:
Ethernet is not designed for huge LANs. If you want that you need to make significant changes - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mas90/MOOSE/
Hm:
"Our object is to design a communication system which can grow smoothly to accommodate several buildings full of personal computers and the facilities needed for their support."
Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs Communications of the ACM Volume 19 Issue 7, July 1976
If you take that to mean that they intended to support all of that within a single ethernet broadcast domain, then, they most definitely failed. If you take that to mean that they intend it to be a technology which, with multiple ethernet segments, connected by routers, could scale to meet that goal, then, yes, they succeeded. Owen