Repeater interface controller.

摘要

A repeater interface controller that connects segments of a bus/tree local area network utilizes a distributed architecture that includes two types of nodes. A central node performs the majority of the operations defined in the IEEE 802.3 repeater specification. A port node (P1-P8) resides at the end of each of a spoke from the central node and is the connection between a network segment and a repeater segment, each port node controls transmit operations upon its associated segment and arbitrates with other port nodes whenever there is contention during packet reception or collision. <IMAGE>