If my
memory serves, Ethernet uses the binary exponential backoff algorithm to avoid
two stations recommencing transmitting after a packet collision. May be worth a
look via Google.
HTH
Doug.
-----Original Message-----For this application, you really DO NOT need a very random
From: Jim Wagner [mailto:jim_d_wagner@applelinks.net]
Sent: 08 March 2005 17:42
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Multimaster network
value. The whole idea is that the transmitters that
"collided" wait different time intervals before retrying.
You just want one to be different than the other. Don't
bother with all that stuff to get genuinely random values.
Jim Wagner