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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: How to terminate a minimal thin ethernet segment?
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.191653.28927@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 19:16:53 GMT
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Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City
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	Today, I was trying to boot a new FastPath (for those not familiar,
a FastPath is an AppleTalk-Ethernet bridge/router/protocol-converter/etc).
Anyway, it appeared that being connected to the ether while being
configured via the AppleTalk side was confusing it, so I decided to unplug
it from the (thin) ethernet segment it was on until I had it set up
properly.

	Making sure I didn't disrupt the ether segment was easy, I just
took off the base of the T-connector.  But then I was left with an
unterminated BNC on the FastPath.  The "right" way to terminate it, I
suppose, would have been to get another T and put a thin terminator on each
leg, but I didn't have any more terminators handy.  What I did instead was
to just take a 1/8th Watt 51-ohm resistor and connect it across the center
and shield contacts right on the BNC jack.  Shouldn't that have been all I
needed?  The box kept complaining about ethernet errors, so it would appear
it wasn't, but I don't understand why.  Can somebody enlighten me?
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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