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From: rbthomas@caip.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Thin Ethernet
Message-ID: <4122@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 23:13:52 EST
Article-I.D.: caip.4122
Posted: Wed Mar 11 23:13:52 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 01:01:07 EST
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: trouble-reports thin-ethernet


Does anybody out there have any experience with thin ethernet?

What happens to the network if somebody unhooks their machine from the
BNC connector and leaves it flapping in the breeze?

Assuming that nothing bad happens, then what happens after it has flapped
for a couple of months and finally comes in contact with a lurking
paperclip just waiting to short the cable?

Has this ever happened to you?  I have nightmares on the subject, and
have been holding off putting in a thin ethernet in our building because
of them.

Reply by mail, or post to the net, or phone me (only if you have
*real* experience with thin ethernet to relate).  I will summarize if
interest warents.

Rick Thomas

rbthomas@caip.rutgers.edu  (ARPAnet)

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