What was a Token Ring network?(dfarq.homeip.net)
103 points by ibobev | 79 comments
Blog post from The Silicon Underground explaining the history of IBM's Token Ring networking technology and its competition with Ethernet in the 1980s and 1990s.
#ethernet on Hacker News
7 stories tagged ethernet, newest first.
ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux(naturalsystems.io)
206 points by chabad360 | 131 comments
Product page for ETH-68, a rack-mount ethernet audio interface for Linux with 8 outputs, 6 inputs, and MIDI in/out.
The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980(tomshardware.com)
7 points by Brajeshwar | 1 comments
Tom's Hardware news article marking the anniversary of the 1980 Ethernet specification drafted by DEC, Intel, and Xerox.
Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires(thehftguy.com)
443 points by user5994461 | 255 comments
Blog post by The HFT Guy describing running gigabit Ethernet over existing British telephone wiring in a London home.
Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle(lcamtuf.substack.com)
486 points by zdw | 157 comments
lcamtuf's Substack post investigating claims that a cheap RJ45 Ethernet dongle contains malicious hardware, reverse-engineering it to assess supply-chain sabotage.
I sent an Ethernet packet(github.com)
372 points by todsacerdoti | 119 comments
A GitHub-hosted blog post by Francis Stokes about sending an Ethernet packet from a microcontroller as the start of building a TCP/IP stack from scratch.
Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years(spectrum.ieee.org)
365 points by pseudolus | 354 comments
IEEE Spectrum article on Ethernet's 50-year history and its status as the worldwide standard LAN technology, recognized as an IEEE Milestone.