On Mar 22, 0:51, Eric Smith wrote:
> Chuck McManis asked:
> > I'm confused, aren't these "fan out" units just hubs?
>
> Aaron Christopher Finney replied:
> > These simply provide multiple ports on a single tap. I indicated my
> > interest in them for the thick ethernet segment in my garage, as I only
> > have 3 transceivers tapped into it at the moment. Physically, they just
> > connect to the tapped transciever.
>
> Which, as Chuck suggests, is a effectively a description of a hub, albeit
one
> that has AUI interfaces rather than 10-base-T. Ethernet hubs are
technically
> multiport repeaters, and are subject to all of the topology and distance
> limits of repeaters.
I'm not sure these are repeaters, though. So a signal that's sent from a
station on one of the AUI interfaces would go onto the wire, but I'm not
sure that it would get back (directly) to the other AUI interface(s).
Anyone know?
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 02:34:48 GMT