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From: mitton@nac.dec.com (Dave Mitton)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: DEC on Thinwire Stubs?
Message-ID: <8803302355.AA28684@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 30 Mar 88 23:55:55 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In a recent posting:

>Path: decwrl!labrea!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!cfa!ward
>Subject: Re: Thinwire ethernet: Question about drop cables
>Posted: 23 Mar 88 17:27:34 GMT
>Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics
> 
>I have some DEC printed matter which says that it is permissible to use
>a thinwire ethernet tee connector stub cable of <== 27 inches.
> 
>I am installing some thinwire connections to VS2000's and some PC Clones
>to talk to a VAX server.  The statement is made in documents that came
>with the DEC hardware/software packages for the PC support, the names
>being something like "VMS Services for MSDOS" (server software which
>runs on VAX) and "PC Network Integration Package."

	I would like to know exactly (eg: Title, Order #, page & paragraph)
where you are getting this information from.  I do not belive that we have 
endorsed Thinwire stubs.  Quite the contrary, to the best of my knowledge,
a tee is the longest stub allowed.  

	Don't confuse the rules of _radial_ thinwire branches from a DEMPR
(Multiport Thinwire Repeater) with stubbing off of a daisy chain.

	Dave Mitton, DECnet-DOS.

	BTW: Thinwire didn't exist at the time of the original Ethernet
standards.  It was added in the IEEE under the name of 10BASE2.