Re: Historical question: Link layer flow control / silent discard
Lachlan Andrew <[email protected]>
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On 25 May 2013 07:09, John Day <[email protected]> wrote: > At today's data > rates, it is unlikely to see flow control at the data link layer, or > elsewhere in between, but who knows! At 10Gbps, it is in FCoE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel_over_Ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_flow_control However, perhaps that isn't the link layer. I've always wondered why switched ethernet (which does the ISO layer-3 tasks of addressing, routing over multiple point-to-point links and buffering) is called a "link layer" by the internet community... Cheers, Lachlan -- Lachlan Andrew Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA) Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia <http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/landrew> Ph +61 3 9214 4837