Even CZ agrees with me
The hub can have two backplanes connected by a switch [referring to it's
internals]
Though why he wants to argue against his own assertion is beyond me.
David:
The 10/100Mbps hub ports do not see the switch technology directly, as the
switch is only used to communicate between the two backplanes. In a switch,
the ports see the switch technology directly.
So, you are correct that a dual backplane 10/100Mbps hub includes
electronics for a switch.
I mentioned the packet sniffing test as a way of ascertaining what
technology the ports are using: if a trace shows directed traffic between
other wss, then the port is functioning as a hub.
From LinkSys:
"All Linksys Switches provide for Full-Duplex speed and cut down the traffic
on the network by sending the packets only to the port on the workstation
[that] is to receive the information. The Linksys hubs only operate at
Half-Duplex speed and they broad cast a packet to all the nodes on the
network (the Auto- sensing hubs broadcast the 10Mb packets to the port that
operate at 10Mb only and broadcast the 100Mb packets to the ports that
operate at 100Mb only."
