Re: Still a little confused

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From: Rob Warnock
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 11:00

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myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
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| I am still a little confused about concentrators and rings.
| Is the general usage for FDDI to use a concentrator? Or do
| users generally build physical rings?
+---------------

It varies wildly depending on the environement. Some users mix the two.

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| And of course the follow up:  If they use a concentrators, then why
| pass tokens out to the stations, when the token can be passed about
| inside the hub?
+---------------

Uh... Unless you pass the token to the stations, how're they gonna know
when they can transmit?  That's what the tokens are *for*.


-Rob

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