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would not exceed the requirements of the receiving hardware and collisions would not pose a problem. Usually this detailed information is not easy to obtain and difficult for users to calculate. The standard requires generation of sufficient preamble bits to make sure a frame can be received when operated within specification limits (i.e. applying the 5-4-3 rule).
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According to the original Ethernet protocol, a signal sent out over the collision domain must reach every part of the network within a specified length of time. The 5-4-3 rule ensures this. Each segment and repeater that a signal goes through adds a small amount of time to the process, so the rule is
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This rule divides a collision domain into two types of physical segments: mixing segments, and link segments. User segments can have users' systems connected to them. Link segments (FOIRL, 10BASE-T, 10BASE-FL, or 10BASE-FB) are used to connect the network's repeaters together. The rule mandates that
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Various repeaters (hubs) may use slightly different implementations and operate differently. Each repeater would lose more or less bits while locking on, some could lose as many as 5 or 6 bits. You could create a network with more repeaters if you made sure the total number of lost preamble bits
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and then locks onto the bitstream. Once locked on, it would then repeat each bit out the other port(s). However, a number of bits would be consumed at the start while the repeater was locking onto the bit stream. As the frame propagated through each repeater the preamble would get shorter and
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there should be at most 5 segments tied together with 4 repeaters, with up to 3 mixing segments (10BASE5, 10BASE2, or 10BASE-FP). Link segments can be 10BASE-T, 10BASE-FL or 10BASE-FB. This rule is also designated the
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In a lab at DEC they knew how many bits their repeaters would lose and knowing this were able to create an 11 segment, 10 repeater, 3 active segment (11-10-3) network that maintained a round trip delay of less than
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to network equipment or the connections between different pieces of network equipment. These connections generally use dedicated media for transmitting and receiving, simplifying collision detection.
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because each port on a switch constitutes a separate collision domain. With mixed repeated and switched networks, the rule's scope ends at a switched port.
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In addition to the necessity of reliable collision detection, a frame cannot be repeated too many times. A repeater normally listens for the
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shorter. Too many bits lost meant that an end node may not have enough preamble bits to lock on and the entire frame would be missed.
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of the five segments may be mixing segments. This last requirement applies only to 10BASE5, 10BASE2, and 10BASE-FP Ethernet segments.
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802.3-2008 Part 3: Carrier sense multiple access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications
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segment: The medium connection, including connectors, between Medium Dependent Interfaces (MDIs) in a CSMA/CD local area network.
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Ethernet varieties, a segment would therefore correspond to a single coax cable and any devices tapped into it – a
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were the only types of Ethernet networks available. The rules only apply to shared-medium
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and a sufficient number of preamble bits that all end nodes functioned properly.
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13. System considerations for multisegment 10 Mb/s baseband networks
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13. System considerations for multisegment 10 Mb/s baseband networks
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definition: an electrical connection between networked devices.
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Index

Ethernet Way versus IEEE Way
Ethernet
repeaters
segments
backbones
tree topology
collision domain
FOIRL
repeaters
repeater hubs
switched Ethernet
transmission times
IEEE
10BASE5
10BASE2
twisted-pair Ethernet
end station
0101 preamble
"IEEE 802.3-2012 13. System considerations for multisegment 10 Mb/s baseband networks"
the original
"Large Networks: 5-4-3 Rule"
Archived
"The 5-4-3-2-1 Rule"
Archived
An Educator's Guide to School Networks
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Ethernet
local area network

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