3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
3:40 p.m.
On Friday 03 June 2005 09:36 am, Gerald Combs wrote:
You're not making a distinction between Ethernet's physical layer specifications (100BASE-T, 10BASE2, 1000BASE-LH, etc) and its data link layer spec. I am.
Precisely; and I would count fiber optic cable as a similar "extension" of the ethernet standards. Again, you can't plug fiber into your $10 five port hub; my real point is that all of these transports are incompatible with the standard local transport protocol and can't be directly connected.