Answers to Written Lab 2.2

When a collision occurs on an Ethernet LAN, the following happens:

1. A jam signal informs all devices that a collision occurred.

2. The collision invokes a random backoff algorithm.

3. Each device on the Ethernet segment stops transmitting for a short time until the timers expire.

4. All hosts have equal priority to transmit after the timers have expired

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