Re: Re (2): Linux hub
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>From: jesus.navarro@undominio.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Re (2): Linux hub
>Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:10:55 +0200
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>>Hi, owens:
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>>On Tuesday 07 September 2010 01:08:40 owens@netptc.net wrote:
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>>> Boyd
>>> I'm not disagreeing with you in practice but many years ago these
>>> WERE the definitions the ITU and ISO dealt with. IIRC it was the
>>> vendors who screwed things up by introducing such products as
>>> "swithcing hub"
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>>For one time this is not because of marketing: a "switch" *is* a
>switching hub
>>just as a "hub" is a multiport repeater. They are just plain
>descriptions of
>>what they do.
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Somewhat OT but I found more modern "definitions" of these terms in
the IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms (I
have the Sixth Edition)
Larry
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