Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Do multiport repeaters buffer packets?
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.171040.18192@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <65056@yarra.oz.au>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 90 17:10:40 GMT

In article <65056@yarra.oz.au> chris@yarra.oz.au (Chris Jankowski) writes:
>Assume that N-1 PCs each on different Ethernet segment generates a packet
>directed to the server at the same time. Even if the server's Ethernet
>segment is quiet only one of those packets can be delivered at a time.
>What happens with the others? 

Exactly what happens if they're all on one Ethernet:  they collide.
Repeaters just pass signals from one Ethernet to another, they do nothing
to avoid collisions.  (Well, barring attempts to detect and disconnect
Ethernets that are defective.)
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