Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!drexel!jeff
From: jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: How to monitor AppleTalk networks
Summary: Can you mix Phonenet and (Apple) Appletalk cabling?
Message-ID: <599@drexel.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 03:47:46 GMT
References: <32990@linus.UUCP> <1666*kenw@noah.arc.cdn>
Organization: Drexel University, Phila., Pa.
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In article <1666*kenw@noah.arc.cdn>, kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein) writes:
> > Although PhoneNet is supposed to work
> >over longer cable lengths than Appletalk cable, we experienced
> >more anomalies when PhoneNet sections were tacked on.  When we
> >disconnected the PhoneNet section, performance returned to normal.
> 
>   It worked fine for us. The fact that it didn't for you is, however, 
> certainly not surprising.

   Can you mix Phonenet and Appletalk wiring on the same cable?  I was under
the impression that phonenet cable only worked with phonenet transceivers,
and the same for Apple cabling and transceivers.  Please enlighten me.

						Jeff White
						Drexel University - ECE Dept.
						rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff