On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:32 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > >> 5. What is the reason for the 100m distance limit within an ethernet >> collision domain? > > What's an ethernet collision domain? Seriously, when was the last time > you dealt with a half duplex ethernet? >
Last time I built a cluster; admin and some redundant ingress/egress methods do better with hubs than switches. Also last time I had to build a cheap redundant firewall. This is a corner case, but if you just know ether as a point to point it will eventually bite you. Having some spanning tree clue is much more relevant now, though. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
