Good luck on the surgery. Hopefully, you'll be doing aerobics by next week
this time.
See you in a couple
Nigel.
----- Original Message -----
From: Howard C. Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Making a switch behave like a hub
> >Hello,
> >
> >This may sound like a silly question bear with me for a moment...
> >
> >Is it possible to get a 24 port L2 switch instead of 4 different hubs to
> >have 4 different networks?
> >The reason why I don't want to use a hub in the first place is because I
> >don't want any changes made to the frame as it goes thru the switch
> >fabric. Does this make sense or 4 hubs is the only way to go?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >--Manny
>
>
> Simple answer: usually yes.
>
> More complex: what problem are you trying to solve? Even in a hub,
> the bits that come in on one port are not the same physical bits that
> exit on another port. They will be regenerated, so it's arguable if
> the frame changes or it's simply a frame copy.
>
> When going through a bridge/switch, the FCS will be recomputed,
> although it may have exactly the same value as on the input.
>
> -----
> I'm having surgery today and may be offline for a couple of days to a
week.
>
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