[ale] nfs & collisions

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Mon Feb 24 15:28:36 EST 2003


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:24:40PM -0500, Zachary Link wrote:
[snip]
>  A hub broadcasts every packet out every port, except the one it came in
> on.  A switch keeps a table tracking which port every mac addrress is on. 
> In the case of a host on a "remote" switch, the uplink port will just have
> a lot more mac addresses associated with it than one with a single server
> on it.

That's what I thought.  Jeff's reply about why the latency increases
makes sense, too.

Thanks,
Jason
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