Doubtful. If that was the case, the traffic lights would go and stay
totally solid after a few seconds. Loops in ethernet/tokenring become
obvious very quickly.
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, PAQUIN christophe wrote:
> > Message: 1
> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: "Adrian Blatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Single VLAN switch
> > Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 09:45:25 +0100
> >
> > Just because all ports on a switch are on the same VLAN it doesn't
> mean that
> > the switch is acting like a hub. It means that traffic is permitted
> to be
> > routed to any port as they are all part of the same LAN. The switch
> should
> > still try to route depending on the MAC address of sender and
> receiver. If
> > you are getting all the busy ports lighting together it suggests that
> the
> > traffic is broadcast or that the MAC address table does not contain
> the
> > entries.
>
> Or maybe there is a loop in the network and Spanning Tree protocol is
> not
> activated ..
>
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