quick network engineering review question
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Jun 3 10:40:27 CDT 2005
On Friday 03 June 2005 09:36 am, Gerald Combs wrote:
> You're not making a distinction between Ethernet's physical layer
> specifications (100BASE-T, 10BASE2, 1000BASE-LH, etc) and its data link
> layer spec. I am.
Precisely; and I would count fiber optic cable as a similar "extension" of the
ethernet standards. Again, you can't plug fiber into your $10 five port hub;
my real point is that all of these transports are incompatible with the
standard local transport protocol and can't be directly connected.
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