In a message dated 27.07.00 19:34:37 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << You and others in this thread seem to be saying that incorporating switches into a network is to completely eliminate collisions. True? False? Please clear this up for me....thanks. >> It's not that segmenting will completely cure collisions, it's just that the fewer the better and that is what you get when you segment networks. If you had broadcast/protocol problems then your answer would be routing. Hope this helped but it looks like you knew the answer to your own question. :) Mark Zabludovsky ~ CCNA (Soon 2b CCDA) ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]