From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 19 8:18:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3131F37B404 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 17KhEJ-0006ai-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:18:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:18:43 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless lans with multiple accesspoints Message-ID: <20020619151842.GD23903@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20020619145617.GB23903@pir.net> <20020619151312.063275D06@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020619151312.063275D06@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. 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 Kevin Oberman probably said: > Simply stated, no. Per 802.3, collisions are a local event. There is > no way for a switch to "send a collision" and the section of 802.3 on > full-duplex is specific that collision detection MUST be disabled. A > switch does not divide a broadcast domain, but does divide a collision > domain. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. Collision detection is not always disabled, collisions do happen if they are supposed to or not. P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message