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Dec 15, 2019 at 20:07 comment added Ron Maupin Did any answer help you? If so, you should accept the answer so that the question doesn't keep popping up forever, looking for an answer. Alternatively, you can provide and accept your own answer.
Nov 11, 2019 at 18:22 answer added Zac67 timeline score: 1
Nov 11, 2019 at 16:57 comment added Ron Maupin Hubs have no idea what they are sending. Hubs merely amplify and repeat the signals received to all other hub interfaces.
Nov 11, 2019 at 16:19 answer added Darrell Root timeline score: 2
Nov 11, 2019 at 15:42 comment added FbaStack So the hub repeats packets to all his ports, but a packet coming out from a hub doesn't have a FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF mac address so?
Nov 11, 2019 at 15:38 comment added schaiba There is a difference between "mindless" repeating (what a hub does) and broadcasting (what a switch does) . To be precise, broadcasting is something that a switch "chooses" to do, while a hub will repeat what it "hears" "mindlessly".
Nov 11, 2019 at 15:34 comment added FbaStack But the hub broadcasts packets to all his ports
Nov 11, 2019 at 15:22 comment added schaiba "I know that hubs send broadcast packets, so every packets is received by each node in the broadcast domain. I read that frames that are received but that aren't addressed to a NIC'S MAC address are dropped. " -- true for hubs. Broadcast packets don't really make sense with repeaters (hubs), only for switches.
Nov 11, 2019 at 15:17 comment added FbaStack Nono, I mean hubs and I refer to this post
Nov 11, 2019 at 15:12 comment added schaiba Hubs are obsolete since way back. Do you perhaps mean switch?
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