Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | 15 Mar 2003 12:46:35 +0000 | Subject | RE: RS485 communication |
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On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 23:30, Chris Fowler wrote: > Are you saying that for him to to use PPPD that he will have to write a > program that will run on a master and tell all the slave nodes when they > can transmit their data. In this case it would be ppp data. Hopfully > in block sizes that are at least the size of the MTU ppp is running.
You don't _need_ a master, although it's often an easy answer.
You can have a token-bus arrangement like ARCnet does. In fact, the ARCnet data sheets describing how it works may make interesting reading.
-- dwmw2
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