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From: songer@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Christopher M Songer)
Subject: StandAlone Network
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.144630.1102@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 14:46:30 GMT

Hi,

     I received alot of requests for this so here goes, be aware that
while I have not tried it (Radio Shack doesn't have all the parts), I 
know someone who has:

     If you want to turn your standalone NeXT into a standalone on a 
network of one machine, here's what you do: First you need to terminate
the network properly. I'm not sure how to do this with twisted pair, but
for the coax connection, get a splitter and two fifty ohm terminators.
(for the make your own crowd, one 25 ohm terminator and no splitter will 
obviously do the trick, but it will probably have to be a custom job, I think 
50 ohm is the kind you are going to find in the store.) Hook it up to the back 
of your computer. This will make the hardware happy and if you watch your
machine boot, it should not longer say there is no network.

     The final thing is to make sure that netinfo and /etc/hosts have
the same data for your machine name and address. Some non-next programs
pull the address from /etc/hosts and if there is a descrepancy, it will
hose the program up. I'm not exactly sure how to do this last part, but
I can't imagine it is very hard.

-Chris
songer@ecn.purdue.edu