It's fun arguing "marketing-speak" with engineering folks. :-) I see a 10/100 Sub (I like that one the best) as two hubs with a bridge between them. Based on the connect speed, a port can participate on either the 10Mbps side or the 100Mbps side. I was just wondering if that bridge was full or half duplex... :-)
P.S. I just jumped into this thread for the fun of it. I'm getting my moneys worth. :-) >>> "Priscilla Oppenheimer" 09/11/02 11:45AM >>> Ken Diliberto wrote: > > My understanding of a 10/100 hub is it has a bridge/switch > internally to Technically there's no such thing as a 10/100 hub. If a device connects two different speed networks, it has to do store and forward of frames (not just forwarding of bits) and hence is a bridge or switch. I wouldn't call a device that does both, includes hub ports and an internal bridge/switch as you mention, "a hub," but product names are chosen by marketing people not engineers. Shall we create a new term? Brub or swub or hubge or hubtch. To quote my co-author in Troubleshooting Campus Networks, it's amazing the terminology that can result when one engineer and two marketing people go out to lunch. He threw that in a few times in our book. :-) Priscilla [snip] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=53166&t=52973 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
