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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!john
  2. From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
  4. Subject: Re: Early and Late Collision
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.003641.22901@news.iastate.edu>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 00:36:41 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul29.012447.4664@gecko.uucp> <Bs5t9D.4yo@zoo.toronto.edu>
  8. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  9. Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
  10. Lines: 18
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  12. henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
  13. }Once the necessary time for consensus has elapsed and no collision has
  14. }been seen, all nodes should agree that there is a transmission in progress.
  15. }A properly-functioning Ethernet node will not attempt to transmit between
  16. }seeing that somebody else is transmitting and the end of that transmission.
  17. }A late collision is one occurring after consensus should have been achieved.
  18. }It means something is badly wrong somewhere -- either a misconfigured
  19.                                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  20. }network or a malfunctioning node.
  21.  
  22. Most likely a segment longer than the longest allowed.
  23.  
  24. John
  25. -- 
  26. John Hascall                                       ``Live with it pink-boy!''
  27. Project Vincent                                                              
  28. Iowa State University Computation Center                     john@iastate.edu
  29. Ames, IA  50011                                      515/294-9551 [fax -1717]
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