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For the young’uns amongst us: switches use to be an expensive luxury. Most small LANs used cheap hubs at the edges, where every inbound Ethernet frame was spray
by kstrauser 1y ago
For the young’uns amongst us: switches use to be an expensive luxury. Most small LANs used cheap hubs at the edges, where every inbound Ethernet frame was sprayed out to all the other ports.
They commonly had “collision” lights, and they used ‘em.
- eszed 1y agoYup. Was going to say the same thing. I remember my first encounter with a switched network bent my brain. What, I have to give everything an address? Where'd this 192.168 come from? Networking used to be so easy! Anyway, we all learned and adapted.