> > Add in a couple of 2 port bridges to reframe things, and it's quite > possible to run a layer 2 ethernet that is 10's of km long, and has > thousands of hosts on it. There was a day when 3000-4000 hosts on > a single layer 2 network at 10Mbps was living large. >
The bridges terminate the collision domain though not the broadcast domain. That was one reason for specifying a collision domain rather than using terms such as subnet, network, etc. Owen
