Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:42:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Cc: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, dg@root.com, tlambert@primenet.com, tarkhil@mgt.msk.ru, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fxp' driver/hardware lossage (was Re: Alexander B. Povol's mail) Message-ID: <199709271142.EAA24360@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709270811.BAA00487@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from "Don Lewis" at Sep 27, 97 01:11:51 am
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> } Only broken NIC chips are simplex, even the 82586 is actually capable > } of hering itself talk on the wire, though most drives do not set > } the chip into this mode. Either way ``ethernet is _not_ a simplex > } device''. > > That's only true of coaxial media. Over twisted pair, if you see > data start arriving on the receive pair while your transmitting then > you have to assume that the data is being sent by another station > and you've got a collision situation. Isn't this the hub's responsibility to distinguish and prevent? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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