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Media Access Question

Started by coasttech , Mar 29 2006 08:36 PM

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coasttech

Posted 29 March 2006 - 08:36 PM

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Is there a media access method called CSMA/MA???

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dsenette

Posted 30 March 2006 - 09:43 AM

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CSMA stands for Carrier Sense Multiple Access...i don't know what the MA stands for...and haven't found a reference for it

i know what CSMA/CA(collision avoidance) and CSMA/CD(collision detection) is

csma/ca is for collisiion avoidance...where each computer listens on the wire and tries it's hardest not to talk at the same time as someone else

CD actually detects collisions and resubmits the packets after a random time interval to try to avoid another collision...