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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by allanrbo on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:22AM (#37924813)
I think op was just saying as a bus on a local network for some very specialized application.
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by wayfinder on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:29AM (#37925123)
But you can do that already. DNS, ARP, TCP/UDP, and IP are all completely optional.

Just write a program to send and receive Ethernet frames. I believe it doesn’t have to contain IP.

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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by camtarn on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:10AM (#37926061)
Indeed - see industrial protocols such as EtherCAT or Powerlink, which use Ethernet frames with their own non-IP protocol on top.
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by namtab00 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:38PM (#37936273)
aren't also ATMs using a protocol of the same "species"?
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