quick network engineering review question

[Jonathan Hutchins]

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.