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Re: job screening question


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:45:20 -0700


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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