From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 19 16:31:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (adsl-67-113-12-90.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.113.12.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F73537B427 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kfu.com (gate.cenzic.com [66.237.77.34]) (authenticated) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5JNUIt18481 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified OK); Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Message-ID: <3D1113E1.7020505@kfu.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:29:37 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: Marco Molteni , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless lans with multiple accesspoints References: <200206170919.LAA11550@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20020618003639.6592f5ae.brian@Awfulhak.org> <20020619004209.5483.qmail@cobweb.example.org> <20020619084119.C27055@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > >In this vein the term 'collision domain' came up. In how far does >a 100 Mb network consisting of several (3COM 3000) switches which are >cascaded (using TP cables, not a matrix cable) still form a collision >domain? Does it really? > > > No. Switches do not propagate collisions. They are supposed to do store-and-forward. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message