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Chaosnet was the name for both an internetworking protocol family, and an early LAN technology, both invented at the MIT AI Laboratory; the latter was the LAN on which the protocol first ran.

The LAN was a CSMA-CD system modeled on the Xerox PARC 3 megabit/second Ethernet, running over cable TV cable. The protocol was later made to run over standard 10 megabit/second Ethernet, which largely supplanted the Chaosnet hardware. (On Ethernet, the Address Resolution Protocol is required to provide mappings from 16-bit Chaos addresses to the 48-bit addresses used by Ethernet.)

The protocol provided a reliable byte stream service, but also had a datagram mode.

Chaosnet was initially called CAIOSnet.

AI memo 628 - Includes chapters on ITS, TOPS-20, Lisp Machine, and Unix implementations.
SYSDOC;CHAORD > - Initial design
MOON;AMBER > - Another Moon document
Chaosnet - Detailed descriptions of both the hardware system, and the protociol(s)
CHAOS; - hardware interface designs, etc.
- CHAOS;CHAOS PLANS - interesting details of the physical installation at MIT

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 '''Chaosnet''' was the name for both an [[internetworking]] [[protocol suite|protocol family]], and an early [[Local area network|LAN]] technology, both invented at the [[MIT AI Laboratory]]; the latter was the LAN on which the protocol first ran.
-The LAN was a [[CSMA-CD]] system modeled on the [[Xerox PARC]] 3 megabit/second [[Ethernet]], running over [[cable TV]] cable. The protocol was later made to run over standard 10 megabit/second Ethernet, which largely supplanted the Chaosnet hardware. (On Ethernet, the [[Address Resolution Protocol]] is required to provide [[mapping]]s from 16-[[bit]] Chaos [[address]]es to the 48-bit addresses used by Ethernet.)
+The LAN was a [[CSMA-CD]] system modeled on the [[Xerox PARC]] 3 megabit/second [[Ethernet]], running over [[cable TV]] cable. The protocol was later made to run over standard 10 megabit/second Ethernet, which largely supplanted the Chaosnet hardware. (On Ethernet, the [[Address Resolution Protocol]] is required to provide [[mapping]]s from 16-[[bit]] Chaos [[address]]es to the [[Media Access Control Address‎|48-bit addresses]] used by Ethernet.)
 The protocol provided a [[reliable byte stream]] service, but also had a [[datagram]] mode.