My understanding of a 10/100 hub is it has a bridge/switch internally to connect the 10Mbps side to the 100Mbps side (a repeater wouldn't be able to do this).
>>> "Priscilla Oppenheimer" 09/10/02 05:03PM >>> Ken Diliberto wrote: > > But can the internal switch in a 10/100 hub work in full > duplex??? What is an "internal switch in a hub?" Is that another case of a marketing term? ;-) I've never heard of the term. If it's really a hub, then it's just a repeater. Full duplex has no meaning in this contect. Keep in mind that no self-respecting Ethernet guru EVER used the terms half-duplex or full-duplex when talking about Ethernet until a few years ago. Ethernet was plainly and simply CSMA/CD. (MA stands for multiple access, and is of course not full duplex.) Hubs come from this environment. Nobody used the term "switch fabric" or "hub fabric" or "internal switch" either. ;-) A hub was a dumb physical-layer repeater that did the things I mentioned below, (with a few data-link-layer jobs thrown in to ensure collision detection works correctly for the end hosts in a network extended with repeaters/hubs.) Priscilla > > (Don't know why I decided to ask that question other than to > cause > trouble...) > > Ken the Trouble Maker [snip] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=53106&t=52973 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
