From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 13:25:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3C137B406 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glue.umd.edu (darkstar.umd.edu [128.8.215.163]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8IKPHt02017; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:25:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BA7ADB9.769A7BB@glue.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:25:29 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mark tinguely Cc: imp@harmony.village.org, karsten@rohrbach.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk, julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: CAN bus References: <200109181911.f8IJB1g45545@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mark tinguely wrote: > > > it is quite standard in industrial environments and still popular (at > > least in europe) but existant installations slowly get replaced with > > ethernet based (100baseFX) or industrial ethernet (10Mbit) transceivers. > > I believe it was designed for noisy environments and is still used in > automotive and large equipment (farm tractors, combines, etc). Thats why I chose it for my home automation project. There are a lot of places where I had to run the network wires right next to power wires. Since CAN is supposedly noise resistant and I don't need much bandwidth it seemed like a logical choice. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message