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should we try going back to IPX ?
by sidewndr46 6mo ago
should we try going back to IPX ?
- MikeNotThePope 6mo agoOnly if we're bringing back Token Ring, too.
- synalx 6mo agoThat might be challenging, I hear people are pretty short on tokens these days.
- MikeNotThePope 6mo agoThere's only one token! It's just very popular.
- bluGill 6mo agoArcnet for me.
- sidewndr46 6mo agoWhile we're at what about older physical layers? Coaxial based stuff seems cool in 2026
- jonhohle 6mo agoIsn’t that what MoCa is for?
- rayiner 6mo agoIsn’t twinax just “I heard you like coax so I put coax in your coax.”
- sidewndr46 6mo agotwinax I think is used more like a balanced line with shielding. Twisted pair is preferred because it is cheaper, but for short stuff like SATA the cost difference is so low it might as well be used
- riddlemethat 6mo agoIf it’s not 10BaseT I can’t see small spread adoption.
- MisterTea 6mo agoIPX/SPX is datagram only. BUT it would be an opportunity to build a QUIC-like that runs over it :-)
- colechristensen 6mo agoI've used IPX exactly once in my life, playing Diablo over modems calling my dorm neighbor to establish the connection (in 2005).
- TabTwo 6mo agoI remember removing the IPX route entries from our Cat65 MSFC back in 2006 and from the ATM/Framerelay WAN Equipment. Wasn't very popular with the customers. I also remember the first IPv6 Workshop on W2k SP3 back in 2002. Not that long ago.
- reincarnate0x14 6mo agoComically IPv6 now has almost all the neat stuff IPX did. There probably is an argument for more datagram centric networking these days as the underlying services are generally much faster and more reliable and there is so much more session tracking going on at higher application layers anyway.