Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:06:31 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'fxp' driver/hardware lossage (was Re: Alexander B. Povol's mail)
Message-ID:  <18024.875379991@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 09:16:17 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970927091018.16019C-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > Nope. A hub doesn't do anything with collisions - it just propagates
> > them bit by bit. The NICs sense the collision.
> 
> 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*.

If a "hub" supports full duplex then it is by definition a switch - at
least in my language.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?18024.875379991>