Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: how to connect thin wire segements to thick wire backbone
Message-ID: <1991May15.154503.10360@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 15:45:03 GMT
References: <1991May13.085357.4785@uniwa.uwa.oz> <1991May13.170657.4786@zoo.toronto.edu> <24384@dice.la.locus.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <24384@dice.la.locus.com> lee@locus.com (Lee Slaughter) writes:
>>... Ethernet cable
>>is a bus, not a tree -- it can't branch.  The only way to hook cables
>>together at other than their ends is with a repeater of some flavor.
>>
>uh uh...we've done it. we have mostly thick and hooked up a
>small net on thin to the thick using transceiver and fanout.
>
>
>.....thin net.......transceiver.......fanout......thick net
>
>or something like that. it worked fine. i can look up the
>details, if you want...

I'd very much appreciate details of this, because I'd be very surprised
to see it work the way you've described.  The transceiver's non-coax end
is an AUI connector.  If by a "fanout" you mean a multi-AUI transceiver,
same thing there.  And you can't connect two AUI connectors back to back.
The only way I can make sense of your diagram is to assume that either
the "transceiver" or the "fanout" is really a repeater.
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