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Olof Kindgren said...

They had a lot of problems with the vampire taps in the early days of Ethernet. The taps left holes that were just large enough for dissatisfied electrons to escape. Before that, the electrons often escaped through the wire ends, which is why Xerox decided to put in terminators there to shoot any electrons foolish enough to escape that way.

This was all resolved eventually with Ethernet Jumbo frames, which use larger electrons

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