On Mar 21, 15:24, Jim Strickland wrote:
> Couldn't they be used to divide a termination domain? IE the multiport
> transceiver sits between two branches of a thin-net network, protecting
against
> loss of termination on either branch? Obviously they'd still be in the
same
> collision domain...
I don't really see how the fanout units on offer (or my unsuccessful
back-to-back device) could do that -- the termination isn't in the
transceiver or fanout unit, it's a resistor on the end of the cable.
Anyway, it would still only be one termination domain. Or maybe I've
misunderstood what you mean? If you mean my back-to-back transceiver idea,
yes, if it had worked, you could use it to split a termination domain into
two, just like a two-port repeater, or a very simple bridge (except a
bridge usually separates collision domains too).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue Mar 21 2000 - 17:52:19 GMT