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Ethernet Networking in a Nutshell:

First, we have to understand how Ethernet works. For a nicely summarized history as well as an explanation of the type of media it can run on, you can click here.

Assuming everything is on the same network....... When a computer wants to talk to another computer on your network it 'listens' to see if there is any other traffic on the wire it is attached to. If it detects that it is all clear, it will send its traffic. Sometimes (and the likelihood increases the more computers you have on your network and the more heavily it is used) two hosts will send their data at the same time. When this happens, a collision occurs. When a collision is detected, a timer starts on each of the hosts which must expire before it will attempt to send traffic again. Meanwhile, while this is happening, the user staring at the monitor is busy complaining about how slow the network is.

Now, when host 'A' tries to access a resource from host 'B' for the first......

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