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From: jra@lawday.Dayton.NCR.COM (John.Ackermann@Dayton.NCR.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Thick to thin ethernet
Message-ID: <511@lawday.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 91 20:36:11 GMT
Reply-To: jra@lawday.Dayton.NCR.COM (John.Ackermann@Dayton.NCR.COM)
Organization: NCR Corporation, Dayton, Ohio
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I'm building a small (three or four node) ethernet lan that will link a
unix machine with some PCs.  The unix system ethernet card has an
external transceiver (with N connectors) for thick ethernet.  The pc
cards have built-in bnc connectors for thin ethernet.

The length of the network cable will be short (less than 100 feet
total).

Can I just put a pair of N-to-BNC adapters on the thick transceiver and
run thin cable for the whole system, or is there more to the interface
than that?

Thanks in advance.
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