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From: rick@lrark.UUCP (Rick Mobley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Token ring cabling - HELP!!
Message-ID: <575@lrark.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 90 06:56:02 GMT
References: <9+&^CS&@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: rick@lrark.UUCP (Rick Mobley)
Organization: LRTUG - Little Rock Tech User Group - Little Rock, Arkansas.
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In article <9+&^CS&@rpi.edu> fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
 >I just recently purchased two 4 Mbit token ring cards for the IBM PC.
 >
 >What's I'd like to do is hook up two computers and two computers only with
 >TR.  I've talked with a couple people and they tell me I need a MAU.

A MAU would be nice, but with only two computers you can simply plug them
together. You will need a program to fool the systems in thinking they have
successfully inserted themselves into a network via a MAU. That is because
the adapter runs some diagnostics to determine if it actually can click the
relay in the MAU.

 >Do I really, absolutely need a MAU for a two station network or can I build
 >something myself?  (I've dabbled in electronics a bit, so I'm not completely
 >helpless)
 
If you ever go beyond two stations you will need a MAU. There isn't lots of
electronics inside the MAU, but I don't have a schematic.

 >Reply by e-mail.  Thanks in advance!

I thought this might be interesting to all, so I chose to submit instead of
e-mail.

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