Quoting Wesley Darlington (wesley at yelsew.com):
> The numbers five, two and one are, respectively, the number of
> "hubhops" in a 10baseT ethernet segment (or it could be four, or
> something), the number of Type II (or is it I?) 100baseT hubhops, and
> the number of Type I (or is it II?) 100baseT hubhops. *waves hands*
You may be thinking of the old 5-4-3 rule: 5 segments, 4 hubs, 3
populated segments. These being the maximum numbers of such things any
ethernet signal may reliably pass through between source and
destination.
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