Freescale Semiconductor TWR-MCF52259-Ethenet User Manual page 22

Ethernet -
<networking> A
Metcalfe & Boggs of
Intel and
as the industry standard.
Data is broken into
using the
destination without colliding with any other packet. The
first contention slot
an acknowledge
receiving at any instant. The
Disk-Ethernet-Disk transfer rate with
kilobyte per second.
Version 2 specifies that
must be activated during the
transmission finishes, the differential transmit lines are
driven to 0V (half step). It also specifies some
management
and deferrals.
Ethernet cables are classified as "XbaseY", e.g. 10base5,
where X is the data rate in Mbps, "base" means "baseband"
(as opposed to
cabling. The original cable was
others are
pair") which is now (1998) very common.
Ethernet") is also increasingly common
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local area network
Xerox PARC
XEROX (DIX) as IEEE 802.3
packets and each one is transmitted
CSMA/CD algorithm until it arrives at the
after a transmission is reserved for
packet. A node is either transmitting or
bandwidth
collision detect of the transceiver
inter-packet gap
functions such as reporting collisions, retries
radio frequency) and Y is the category of
10base5
10base2 ("thinnet") and
first described by
in 1976. Specified by DEC,
and now recognised
is about 10 Mbit/s.
TCP/IP is typically 30
and that when
network
("full spec"),
10baseT ("twisted
100baseT ("Fast
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