job screening question

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