[mrtg] Re: Any ethernet switch which always floods?

[Larry Sheldon]

>     As far as I know, HUBs will only do half duplex.  If someone knows of a
> full duplex HUB, I'd love to read about it - that'd be a new one on me.

I have been playing with the concept of a "full-duplex" hub and have
come to the conclusion that that is of the order of "sound of one hand
clapping".

Think about it.

Start with the "inbound" side of a port geting permission to speak.  Everything
that it says gets blatted to the "outbound" side of every other port.

OK so far--that is just ordinary hub operation.

Now, one of the other ports wnat to speak (first port still blatting).

If the second is allowed to speak, where is its stuff going to go?  All of
the outbound ports (except for that of the first speaker) are already busy.

What am I missing?


And I would like to know what the original problem-to-be-solved is.

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