[luau] switch

Elayne Man girlfromoahu at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 29 21:06:01 PDT 2002


Randall-

Yes, along with active hubs, switches and routers will also act as a 
repeater by regenerating the signal, and it only sends data to its correct 
destination.  (This minimizes collisions.)

Some hubs will amplify the signal and send it out to ALL ports... not good 
:]

-Elayne


>From: Daniel J Nishimura <djnishim at hawaii.edu>
>Reply-To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
>To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
>Subject: Re: [luau] switch
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:12:40 -1000 (HST)
>
>An active hub is a multiport repeater.  You can usually tell an active hub
>from a passive hub by whether or not it uses its own power supply.
>
>-dan
>
>On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Kevin Goad wrote:
>
> > It depends on what kind it is.  Intelligent hubs or repeaters will
> > retransmit a signal, but the cheap home network hubs don't.
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 05:16, Randall Oshita wrote:
> > > Will a switch or HUB act as a repeater?
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Randall
> >
> >
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