Re: MiDI driver for MiNT-net?

[root@thelbane.brisnet.org.au (Dancer)]

> 
> Exactly, if MIDI-thru is used to copy packets, I can't see any way to ever
> remove them from the ring!  At least with ethernet, the propagation stops at
> the ends of segments.  I think the way to do the propagation is to do the
> manual copy.  It wouldn't have thought the processing overhead would be
> much more than (say) a PPP driver (isn't that basically a point-to-point
> link level driver?) and we are not talking about a high speed net here
> either!  Can you treat the ring as a full duplex net?  I would have thought
> that there is only a limited amount of bandwidth available and you wouldn't
> want to squander any of it (c.f. CSMA-CD ethernet).

Don't use the through on the gateway machine. Use IN/OUT. That way each
packet makes one traversal of the ring, and if a ring machine _after_ the
target puts out a packet for it, it's the gateway's responsibility to
route the packet back onto the ring for the target.


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