Monday, June 23, 2014

No CSMA/CD in Modern Ethernet

Shame, Sad smile..Today only I got to knew that there is no need of CSMA/CD in today’s

Modern Ethernet where there is no Shared Media and is full duplex.

 

Modern switched Ethernet LANs are not CSMA/CD anymore. CSMA/CD was a technique that applied to 10mbit/sec and 100mbit/sec Ethernets that used hubs, not switches.

On modern switched Ethernets, you don't have a shared medium anymore. When you're plugged into a switch, the "collision domain" is only between you and your switch port. And if you're in full duplex mode, which is almost always true with switches, then you don't have any possibility of collision at all. If you can't have a collision, you'll never detect a collision, so you'll never have reason to transmit a jam signal

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