Suppose two hosts (Host-A and Host-B) are connected through a shared Ethernet bus of 1 Mbps. The distance between two nodes is 5 meters.  The signal propagation speed over physical media is 2.5 x 10^5 meters/second. If yes: How much time is needed to detect this collision at Host-A? If yes: How much time is needed to detect this collision at Host-B?

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Suppose two hosts (Host-A and Host-B) are connected through a shared Ethernet bus of 1 Mbps. The distance between two nodes is 5 meters.  The signal propagation speed over physical media is 2.5 x 10^5 meters/second.

  1. If yes: How much time is needed to detect this collision at Host-A?
  2. If yes: How much time is needed to detect this collision at Host-B?
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