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From: haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Subject: Re: Repeaters Grounding Thin Ethernet coax lines.
Date: Thu, 12-Oct-89 18:45:28 MDT
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.184529.15656@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
References: <3824.25292578@zeus.unl.edu> <2128@avsd.UUCP> <27682@amdcad.AMD.COM> <6638@pdn.paradyne.com> <12@saturn.warwick.ac.uk>

In article <12@saturn.warwick.ac.uk> cuacw@warwick.ac.uk (Malcolm Barker) writes:
>I have a copy of IEEE Draft Standard 802.3 (November 1984)
>specifying 10BASE2 which in the SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS section 10.7.1 states
>the following:
>
>        10base2 segments should not be joined to more than one 10base5
>        segment (i.e. 10base2 segments should exist at the periphery of
>        the hybrid structure.).

Huh!  Why not?

-- Walt