Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

[Jason Healy <jhealy@logn.net>]

At 1017330461s since epoch (03/28/02 03:47:41 -0500 UTC), Juhan Kundla wrote:
> Ühel ilusal päeval [28.03.2002] kirjutas Jason Healy <jhealy@logn.net>:
> > Only one node on an ethernet segment may broadcast at any one time,

> This is not completely true. It is quite possible to divide an
> ethernet into several collision domains -- that is why switches are
> used.

Correct.  When I said "ethernet segment", I was referring to a single
collision domain.  You can think of an entire ethernet network being
split into segments using switches.

Jason

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