RE: hubs and switches

[Tony Rall <trall () almaden ibm com>]

On Thursday, 2004-08-05 at 12:41 MST, "Fulp, J.D. USA" <jdfulp () nps edu> 
wrote:
> "col" is short for collision... and switches do not have collisions.

Certainly switches can have collisions.  Any port operating in half duplex 
mode will experience collisions.  (Ports operating in full duplex mode, 
which is more often the case with switches, will never have collisions.)

Tony Rall

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