[ih] DEC Ethernet packet capture box

[Louis Mamakos]

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.   

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. 

louie


On March 18, 2015 5:50:47 PM EDT, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
>You don't mean the DELNI, do you?
>
>I just looked at my copy of "Digital's Networks: An Architecture with a
>Future"
>from ~1985, and didn't see any mention of a specific capture device.
>
>Radia might remember.
>
>Regards
>   Brian
>
>On 19/03/2015 09:03, Craig Partridge wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks:
>> 
>> Does anyone remember the name of the (first) DEC Ethernet packet
>capture box --
>> the first one that could keep up with all the traffic on a 10 Mbps
>Ethernet.
>> As I recall, it became a product c. 1984.  I'm dragging through my
>brain
>> and can't pull up the name.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Craig
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