Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!smb
From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cabling beteen BNC T-connector and workstation?!
Message-ID: <11359@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 23 Mar 89 01:05:22 GMT
References: <3036@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <3036@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>, rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
} A previous poster was mentioning a "fly-run" from a thin Ethernet T-connector
} to the machine.  Are there any gurus who can comment on the legitimacy of
} attempting this?

It isn't legit.

} I'd gotten the impression that you were forced to attach the T directly to the
} workstation and that any extra length between the T and the machine would
} seriously degrade performance (by throwing off collision detection).

You are correct.