Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Broadcast Domain & Collision Domain

Broadcast Domain

A broadcast domain is a logical network segment whereby any network equipment can transmit data directly to another equipment or device without going through a routing device, given the condition that the devices share the same subnet and use the same gateway; also, they must be in the same VLAN.


Collision Domain

Collision domain is also logical network segment in which the data packets can collide to each other. What actually happen is that a single network device sends packets throughout a network segment and forces every other device in that network segment to pay attention to those packets.

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