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Re: Network Switch

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Originally Posted by rich2202 View Post
CAN Bus tends to be Daisy Chained, rather than connected to a common bus. So anything after that failure point would be isolated from anything before that failure point. As a multi-master serial bus, you don't have to worry about being disconnected from the Bus Master.
Yes; however, my fear is that there would no longer be a terminator on the bus which to my understanding would bring the whole thing down. That being said, I don't have a thorough understanding of the inner-workings of the CAN bus and would love to be told I'm wrong.