Method of automatic retransmission of frames in a local area network

摘要

A configurable network interface controller that provides for the automatic retransmission of collided Ethernet frames from a local RAM while observing two modes of operation: (1) retransmission of as much of the frame as possible without violating latency requirements and (2) first guaranteeing the safe retransmission of the first 64 bytes and then returning to observation of the latency requirements.