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Neil Stone wrote: > > I was going through an online examy/trainingy thing this evening and was > presented with this.. > > In a star topology, what happens when a workstation loses its physical > connection to another device? > A) The ring is broken, so no devices can communicate > B) Only that workstation loses its ability to communicate > C) That workstation and the device it's connected to lose communication > with the rest of the network. > D) No devices can communicate because there are now two unterminated > network segments > > I got it wrong with an answer of "C".. Can anyone explain to me why this > might be ?? Semantics - they are using device to mean a host on the network. I'd answer B - did they give a diagram or was that ASCII art from your imagination? Context, context.... Star topology assumes that each device has one connection to a central point. Now if X loses connection to Y in a star, strictly speaking either X or Y or both X & Y (and possibly more) may have left the star, and you can't tell from the question which of these apply as far as I can see. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html