<html><head></head><body>No the DELNI was a box that allowed 8(?) hosts to share a single half-duplex ethernet transceiver. It had ethernet AUI connections for the hosts, and another for plugging in a transceiver. Contention was, of course, CMSA/CD based. <br>
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I don't recall if you could operate it without a transceiver attached; as an "ethernet in a box". This might have been something another vendor supported. <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 18, 2015 5:50:47 PM EDT, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">You don't mean the DELNI, do you?<br /><br />I just looked at my copy of "Digital's Networks: An Architecture with a Future"<br />from ~1985, and didn't see any mention of a specific capture device.<br /><br />Radia might remember.<br /><br />Regards<br /> Brian<br /><br />On 19/03/2015 09:03, Craig Partridge wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br /> Hi folks:<br /> <br /> Does anyone remember the name of the (first) DEC Ethernet packet capture box --<br /> the first one that could keep up with all the traffic on a 10 Mbps Ethernet.<br /> As I recall, it became a product c. 1984. I'm dragging through my brain<br /> and can't pull up the name.<br /> <br /> Thanks!<br /> <br /> Craig<br /> _______<br /> internet-history mailing list<br /> internet-history@postel.org<br /> <a
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