From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 19 2: 2: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from nic.crt.se (nic.crt.se [193.12.107.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDD537B408 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crt.se (postiljon.crt.se [172.16.1.14]) by nic.crt.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8846B52B7; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:01:53 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost.hemma.crt.se (boulard.crt.se [172.16.1.201]) by mail.crt.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84661DF7; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:01:52 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:01:54 +0200 Message-ID: From: Olof Samuelsson To: kuku@accms33.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Cc: molter@tin.it, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless lans with multiple accesspoints In-Reply-To: <20020619084119.C27055@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200206170919.LAA11550@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20020618003639.6592f5ae.brian@Awfulhak.org> <20020619004209.5483.qmail@cobweb.example.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.9.7 (Unchained Melody) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 14) (Cuyahoga Valley) (i386-unknown-freebsd4.4) X-Attribution: Olof MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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" == Christoph Kukulies writes: > I chose the wrong term. Routing not in the sense of what we > understand as a router. I just meant 'passing through' the > packets. It's a bridge, of course (kind of). Kind of? In what way is it not a bridge? > 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, it does not. A switch is really just a quick bridge with many ports and hence splits a broadcast domin into several (one per port) collision domains. Of course, switches with built-in routers and X.25 switches are completely different beasts :-) /Olof -- Olof Samuelsson (+46) 31 701 4228 Carlstedt Research Unix, Networking, Security (+46) 70 785 8491 & Technology AB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message