From: "Douglas K. Fischer" <fischerdk@purefm.net>
> At 12:56 AM 12/17/2002, jdow wrote:
> >From: "David Sudjiman" <davidsudjiman@yahoo.com>
> >
> > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, faisal gillani wrote:
> > > > 2 wat type of network topology do we preffer when
> > > > using linux Network server ?
> > > Their prefer.. dunno you ask them.. perhaps Ethernet? ;-)
> >
> >I'd phrase it more simply, dave. "The preferred topology is
> >the one the customer specifies or that matches the rest of the
> >customer's network. If no such specification or network exists
> >at the moment Ethernet would be the preferred network."
>
> When you say topology, are you referring to layer one (physical)? While
the
> majority of respondents indicate Ethernet (which I will agree is generally
> the layer two protocol of choice), if we're talking physical topology,
> choices would include ring, bus, star, etc.
To a very large extent the choice of Ethernet over say Arcnet
is a choice bewteen a ring and a "virtual bus" topology. (Any
modern Ethernet probably more resembles a rootless tree than
anything else if you speak literal wire runs.)
{^_-}
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