[154570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Edelman)
Thu Jul 5 22:21:35 2012
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:20:58 +0000
From: David Edelman <dedelman@iname.com>
To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120705175052.EEEE1F88@resin13.mta.everyone.net>
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On 7/6/12 12:50 AM, "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
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>--- bill@herrin.us wrote:
>From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
>
>> 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?
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>Now if someone answered it that way, I'd definitely be
>interested while the HR person would just hang up...
>
>scott
>
Anyone who responds that way has at least a notion of collision detection
and propagation delay and might actually have a bit of experience in the
field, not bad things. Is the next question about exponential back off or
regeneration of preamble?
--Dave
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