On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> They can't be in the same collision domain -- the only way to do that
> is to have an Ethernet repeater which repeats bit by bit fron one
> segment to another, and propagating a collision on one segment as a
> jam on another.
>
> On a FreeBSD box, where you interfaces to ethernet segments are NIC
> cards, you can't get your hands on the ethernet frame until the
> NIC has received it completely. Thus, you don't have to opportunity
> to act as a repeater (not that you'd want to anyway) to have a
> single collision domain.
You know, you are right...never thought it
through completely before I sent my reply. Sorry
everyone for the wasted bandwidth.
Have 1 more question (has to do with this bridging deal):
Anyone working on load-sharing/load-balancing or clustering
network solution with FreeBSD?
Nick Rogness
- Speak softly and carry a Gigabit switch.
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