[154584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jul 5 23:47:24 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120706032649.GA28634@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:45:20 -0700
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>
> 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
