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Why collision domain occurs in hubs but not switches [duplicate]

if anyone knows the actual point and in depth answer to my question please help. the links in the comments didn't helped at all Most of the websites which i saw are just vaguely saying that collision ...
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How to connect a special device in a network

I have a question which is puzzling me. I have a couple of custom electronic devices (are identical, one is a master and the other is a slave) which implement only up to level 2 of the ISO/OSI layer, ...
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Posible to connect VLAN switch through dumb switch?

Is it possible to connect a VLAN switch into a dumb switch ? The router will know how to reach network connected by a VLAN through the dumb switch please ? No edge effect ? By example, a schema of ...
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Understanding VLAN tagging

Let's say we have 4 machines connected to a layer 2, managed switch which is connected to a layer 3 switch. Say that 1.2.3.0/24 is routed to the layer 3 switch. Our goal is to have 1.2.3.0-63 usable ...
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How does a layer-2 switch work with UDP?

If UDP and/or TCP send packets via IP to an Internet Protocol Address, how can a layer-2 switch forward these? Is this possible or do you need a layer-3 switch?
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Enabling flow control on my ethernet NIC

When running "ethtool eth0", I get a line in the output that states -> Supported pause frame use: No Does this mean my Ethernet card does not support flow control at all? I try to enable the flow ...
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To connect 3 LAN to a switch

I have to connect three LAN networks to a node through 24 fiber FO cable. The node contains three different networks a PLC,a security system, a CCTV network. Should I go for three separate CISCO ...
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