collision domain

Collision Domains

Friday, March 5, 2010

Collision Domains - In Ethernet segments, devices connnect to the same physical medium. Because of this, all devices receive all signals sent out across the wire. If two devices send a packet at the same time, a collision occurs. When a collision happens , the two devices run ...

Category : Network

Collision/Broadcast Domains

Thursday, October 22, 2009

All stations on an Ethernet segment are connected to the same segment. Therefore, all signals are received by all the devices. When devices sent signals at the same time, a collision occurs. A scheme is need to detect and