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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Early and Late Collision
- Message-ID: <o09bbc4@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul30.003641.22901@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul31.145926.21096@tridom.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:20:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.145926.21096@tridom.com>, mwr@eng.tridom.com (Mark Reardon) writes:
- >
- > |> of two simultaneous transmissions? The bad guy will be the one whose
- > |> first bit is in trashed by the later bits of the innocent guy. The
- > |> easily capturable MAC header will be that of the innocent guy.
- >
- > At least you'll know the address of one host that is not the offender :-).
-
- But you do not know that! There can be and usually are (my experience
- agrees with Murphy) at least two offenders. All you know is the
- address of one of the victims.
-
- > When these occur I look at the hosts located physically towards the
- > ends of the collision domain (new phrase I learned today and HAD to use).
- > I assume that they might be too far from each other, or some node has too
- > much distance between it and the backbone. Remember that MAUs have
- > distance equivalents that need to be considered.
-
- It can be very hard to locate the ends of the "collision domain".
- With repeaters and hubs, there can be a lot more than 2 ends.
- With long drop cables, there can be as many "ends" as there are
- taps. (E.g. we once had a network consisting of 500 m of yellow-hose
- and about 150 workstations, all off mux's, many with three 75 m
- drop cables between the workstation and the tap.)
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-