Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!usc!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcupt1!hprnd!pat From: pat@hprnd.HP.COM (Pat Thaler) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: How do you string a thinnet? Message-ID: <2480006@hprnd.HP.COM> Date: 13 Nov 89 18:51:57 GMT References: <8910241513.AA13671@vax.ftp.com> Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division Lines: 46 > / hprnd:comp.protocols.tcp-ip / mas@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Mike Smith) / 11:13 am Nov 3, 1989 / > In article <8910301951.AA28831@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU> MAP@LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael A. Patton) writes: > >Date: 27 Oct 89 12:56:14 GMT > >From: eplrx7!mcneill@louie.udel.edu (Keith McNeill) > >Subject: Re: How do you string a thinnet? > >To: tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil > > > >Bernie Hoffstadt asked: > >Now the $64k question: Is there a good reference for this kind of info. > >---------------- > > THE book - > > ANSI/IEEE Standards for Local Area Networks: > > Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) > Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications (with supplements) > ISBN 1-55937-0130, SH12351 (1989) > Actually, the correct title is "Supplements to Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications." It is also refered to as IEEE Supplements to ISO 8892-3:1989 (ANSI/IEEE Std 802.3-1988). It only contains the supplements which are IEEE standards and not yet through the ISO standards process. 10BASE2 (aka thinLAN or thinnet) is now an ISO standard and has moved to ISO 8802-3 : 1989 (E) (ANSI/IEEE Std 802.3-1988) ISBN 1-55937-005-X, SH11726 So order this if you want 10BASE2. Note that section 9 in this book has been replaced by a new section 9 which is in the supplement. Section 9 up to 9.8 has been approved by ISO, but 9.9 on Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Links (FOIRL) is still going through ISO and therefore the whole repeater section was kept together in the supplement. > This includes 10Base2. Anything else is second hand information. > ---------- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Exactly. It would be nice if someone would produce a more tutorial explaination which was technically correct. Apparently, some of those currently available contain serious factual errors. Pat Thaler