On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Frank Sorenson wrote:
> broadcasts those same signals across all the ports.  In a pinch, you can
> sometimes skip the hub completely and just wrap the wires together.  
> You'll get collisions, everyone "hears" the conversation, etc.  The
> Link/Physical layer acts as a bridge between physical networks.

Does that really work?  You'd have to tie the send and receive pairs all
together, right?

                                                -J


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