bae@unisoft.UUCP (Jin Bae) (02/17/89)
Does anyone have any quantitative data or useful comments regarding
possibly higher collision rates incurred by fan-out mux boxes. I
always felt uncomfortable with the idea of using too many mux boxes
because of the fact that several (sometimes over 10) ethernet drop
cables get plugged into one box, which is basically connected to only one
transceiver. I don't know what these boxes actually can or cannot
do in their attempt to reduce conflicts between multiple drop cables
trying to send down packets via a transceiver, but it sure doesn't
look good to see too many of these things in a LAN.
"We are seeing too many fan-out networks and not enough real ethernet
networks." -- Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Hardware
wizards please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Hwa Jin Bae
UniSoft Corporation bae@tis.llnl.gov
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