Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: removing ethernet taps
Keywords: ethernet hardware
Message-ID: <3421@phri.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 14:42:57 GMT
References: <437@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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andrew@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Andrew Knutsen) asks:
> what the best thing is to do to a yellow cable after a tapped transceiver
> is removed.

	We leave the old tap in and cover it over with the plastic cover
which comes with each tranciever.  You certainly don't want to take it out;
once you've pulled a tap out of the cable, you can never put another one
back in the same spot.  The taps themselves are cheap -- about $30-40
compared to $250-300 for a complete tranciever.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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