job screening question
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Fri Jul 6 03:45:20 UTC 2012
>
> 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
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