Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ists!yunexus!eriks From: eriks@yunexus.yorku.ca (Eriks Rugelis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Avoiding a transceiver Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 89 04:08:04 GMT References: <7014@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@yunexus.UUCP Organization: York University Lines: 23 In-reply-to: kunkee@ficc.uu.net's message of 16 Nov 89 21:02:01 GMT >Question: If you only want to connect two systems together, via Ethernet, >it seems that it should be possible to do this simply with a transceiver >cable properly adapted to rearrange the signals. Transceivers do more than 'just put the signal on the medium'. The actual collision detect mechanism lives in the transceiver and not in the controller. Without CD you no-longer have CSMA/CD and Poof! it's not Ethernet anymore :-) >We have some special >situations in which this would be desireable (ie. much cheaper). Does >anybody sell such an adaptor? What you're looking for is a multi-port transceiver with a very small number of ports (i.e. 2). American Network Connections sells something called an ANC-10 that does exactly that. They used to charge only a bit less than the price of two normal transceivers for one 2-port job. There may be other vendors that have similar products. -- --- Voice: Eriks Rugelis E-Mail: eriks@libra.yorku.ca Ma Bell: 416/736-5257 x.2688 UUCP: yunexus!eriks Last resort: eriks@yulibra.NETNORTH Snail: York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario, Canada. M3J 1P3