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From: rbn@umd5.umd.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Some 802.3 questions...
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Date: 20 Jul 90 02:40:24 GMT
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  1) Is it legal (I think I've seen discussion about this before) to barrel a
     thickwire segment to a thinwire segment using an N-to-BNC adapter?

Obviously the worst case is to design the whole thing to 10 BASE 2 (Thinwire)
standards, that is 185 Meters/30 Stations.  In that case, the yellow wire
is just a bit over the spec.

  2) Is it within spec to essentially cascade DEMPR's - i.e. feeding a DEMPR from
     a thinwire segment connected to another DEMPR?  I believe the answer in this
     case is "no" but again, I need specifics.

The answer is yes, sort of.  DEMPR's are repeaters.  The rules say no two
stations may have more than two repeaters between them.

  
  3) I know there's an FTP location for RFC's (nic.ddn.mil) but I need a list of
     RFC numbers and their titles, if such a thing exists, so I know which ones
     to grab.
  

There is an RFC index "<RFC>RFC-INDEX.TXT" the same place the RFC's are.