Friday, March 5, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


Collision Domains

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 08:45 PM PST

Collision Domains - In Ethernet segments, devices connnect to the same physical medium. Because of this, all devices receive all signals sent out across the wire. If two devices send a packet at the same time, a collision occurs. When a collision happens , the two devices run a backoff algorithm and resent the packet. [...]


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