Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:53:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'fxp' driver/hardware lossage (was Re: Alexander B. Povol's mail) Message-ID: <199709272153.PAA20526@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970927095731.16078A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom" at Sep 27, 97 10:02:04 am
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David E. Cross informed us: % Technically this is not even a colission situation. Many new NICs and % Hubs (both must support it to work) support full-duplex 10BaseT, allowing % 20MBits/sec. I am not sure what happens when it gets into the hub and % needs to be propogated to other ports though *shrug*. Tom replied: > That is an etherswitch. Etherswitches learn which ports are using what > MAC addresses, and only direct traffic to the right ports. Etherswitches > are basically bridges with lots of ports. They even support bridging > protocols like 802.1d to support networks with lots of interconnected > switches. > > A hub is just a repeater. It may detect some kinds of errrors, but > probably just jabber errors. Apparently, Tom, you've never heard of a "smart hub." There are 10-Base hubs will will "autopartition" and lock out a port *before* it can generate a collision. Yes, there really is a difference between $80 hubs and $200 hubs! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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