Re: Help with theory question on network topology

fran_beta@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

(snip)

All data packets are transmitted to all devices (again the token ring
networks fails this)


I haven't thought about token ring for a while, but I thought the
data packets went all the way around the ring.  The sender then removes
it and sends a token to the next host.

(snip)

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)?

Hub is, traditionally, the device at the center of a hub and spoke network topology.

For ethernet in the beginning it was a repeater and it is often
considered as a synonym for repeater, but that is technically incorrect.
(As are many other commonly believed ethernet rules.)

I believe that hub was used for TR even earlier than ethernet, though
I have known eight port 10base2 repeaters that could be considered
hubs, even before UTP ethernet existed.

-- glen

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