Re: what about 48 bits?

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:09 02PM, Jay Nakamura wrote:

> > negotiation and backward compatibility.  I think that one of the
> > reasons for the continuing success of "Ethernet" technologies has been
> > implementation simplicity and 100% compatibility above the level of
> > the NIC.
>
> I would have attributed the success of Ethernet to price!
You've got the causality wrong -- it wasn't cheap, way back when.  

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb