MAU's

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Hi,

Am I right in my thinking that an MAU can either by-pass a node totally like an Ethernet equivelent hub or does it make the token go back the other way thus reaching the other side the long way

 

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You got me there Boyce...Apart from reading a bit about MAUs in for the N+ I have never come across one in real life!

Sorry that I can't help you.

 

You've got me on that one. I believe that the token travels only in one direction in the logical ring but I don't recall if a particular workstation can be deliberately bypassed. I tried Googling "token ring mau tutorial" and came up with a bunch of links. I'm posting two below, but you may just have to do some research to find the answer to your question. Good luck.

http://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/networking/guide/nettokenring.html

http://support.intel.com/support/tokenexpress/sb/cs-012004.htm

 

as far as im aware theres no skipping of nodes
an MSAU could close the loop if no node was attached, thus not requirng all ports to be populated, but if a nodes open the loop requires the packet to traverse up and down each wire (this is pretty fast so its very rarely referred to as 'the long way round' :P

 

Thanks for the input guys