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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: taking cube off the network
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.135631.28097@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 89 13:56:31 GMT
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In article <1989Oct29.150651.22693@uncecs.edu> jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP (Joe Freeman) writes:
>On my machine, when at home,  I have an ideal ethernet on the back (1 T 
>connector and two terminators)  but it should not be needed.

In fact, the OS as shipped from NeXT won't like the "stub ethernet" idea
at all. If the connection is left open, NetInfo won't try to use it, but
if you put a valid wire on there, NetInfo will wait until kingdom come
for another NetInfo server to talk to it.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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