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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Re: thin/thick Ethernet
Message-ID: <12670012@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 88 21:29:25 GMT
References: <17925@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ comp.sys.next / jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) / Dec 22, 1988 /
> In article <12670010@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
> >Just to make sure I understand you correctly:  are you actually splicing
> >a piece of thin Ethernet into a thick Ethernet?
> 
>     Yes.  It works.

Oh, I'm not surprised that it works.  It just struck me as a rather
inconvenient thing to do.  When we have several thin-connector machines
near each other, we do connect them all with thin-net, as you suggested.

Except that our thick-cable networks are usually large-spread nets, with
multi-user hosts on them as well as scattered workstations.  We just don't
like splicing into that net, even for inline transceivers.

We use thick/thin repeaters for this kind of stuff.  A repeater with one
thick port and one thin port plus its transceiver and drop cable (for the
think side) cost us about $1,000.  If you are putting 5 or more stations on
the thin side, the cost is quite reasonable.  But for a single workstation,
it's rather steep...

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore