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Date: Sun 22-Dec-1988 21:29:25 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Re: thin/thick Ethernet / comp.sys.next / jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) / Dec 22, 1988 / > In article <12670010@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes: > >Just to make sure I understand you correctly: are you actually splicing > >a piece of thin Ethernet into a thick Ethernet? > > Yes. It works. Oh, I'm not surprised that it works. It just struck me as a rather inconvenient thing to do. When we have several thin-connector machines near each other, we do connect them all with thin-net, as you suggested. Except that our thick-cable networks are usually large-spread nets, with multi-user hosts on them as well as scattered workstations. We just don't like splicing into that net, even for inline transceivers. We use thick/thin repeaters for this kind of stuff. A repeater with one thick port and one thin port plus its transceiver and drop cable (for the think side) cost us about $1,000. If you are putting 5 or more stations on the thin side, the cost is quite reasonable. But for a single workstation, it's rather steep... Jacob Gore Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept. {oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore >From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Date: Sun 23-Dec-1988 17:01:57 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Re: thin/thick Ethernet I certaintly agree that a repeater to isolate important multi-user systems and servers from farms of little machines where the cables are accessable to many people is a valuable addition to a network. I was merely pointing out that thich/thin Ethernet transitions are not difficult to accomplish, should one wish to do so. Some people have found repeaters, as an active device and a single point of failure, to cause more trouble than they prevent. But that information is a few years old, and repeaters may be more reliable now. John Nagle >From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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