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> Should not the router on the T1 be performing some sort of cacheing so
> that packets don't get retransmitted across the T1 every time a
> collision occurs?

Um, packets *don't* get retransmitted across the T1 every time a
collision occurs. In fact packets don't even get *to* the router's
Ethernet port until the collision is resolved.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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