Help with theory question on network topology
- From: fran_beta@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 21 Aug 2005 01:13:54 -0700
I'm trying to mark a paper that deals with networks and I'm trying to
establish whether a question is correct.
The question offers a diagram of a network topology bringing together
ethernet (star and bus) and token rings (includes a printer). A number
of devices are attached to each of the networks. These networks are
joined by a gateway.
The question is whether any of the following statements is correct.
Not all data packets pass through the gateway (My guess, since the
token ring only passes packets to those with the correct token)
Data packets are sent only to the intended receiver (the ethernet
broadcasts to all nodes, so this can't be true)
All data packets are transmitted to all devices (again the token ring
networks fails this)
Printing cannot be initiated from the devices in the star network (this
must be wrong since a gateway joins the ring and star)
Would the answer be different if there were a hub rather than a gateway
(I assume this would divide the token ring from the rest of the
network)?
Is my reasoning correct?
Fran
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