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Switches vs Hubs (please exuse my ignorance)

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Ya`akov N Miles (ynmiles@ibm.net)
Sat, 14 Aug 1999 13:59:25 -0700

I have heard about "switches" and I have a "hub" for my 100 mbits/second
EtherFast LAN. Can someone explain the difference between a "switch"
and a "hub", also, if two computers are communicating via he hub, does
that make all the rest of the ports on the hub unusable until the two
communicating computers finish exchanging packets? 

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