Network devices - John C. Kirk — LiveJournal

Oct. 6th, 2005

09:34 pm - Network devices

Quick question for any networking experts out there: if you have a PC connected to a hub, and it sends out a packet of data, does that go to every machine connected to that hub, or every other machine? I.e. does the originating machine get a copy? The documentation I've read seems to be a bit inconsistent on this point.

Thus a poll:

Poll #584593 Hubs

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 5

Does a hub send traffic back to the originating machine?

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Yes

3(60.0%)

0(0.0%)

Depends on the hub

0(0.0%)

I don't know

2(40.0%)

What's a hub?

0(0.0%)

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From:	alexmc
Date:	October 6th, 2005 11:10 pm (UTC)

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I put dont know but my guess is NO. I mean there already is the signal on that piece of string - why put it on it again - surely that would just cause a collision.

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From:	alexmc
Date:	October 6th, 2005 11:16 pm (UTC)

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http://www.practicallynetworked.com/networking/howhub.htm

first page I looked at agrees with me. *other* machine.

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