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From: hollandm@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Martin Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Cable Taps/No Cable Taps.
Keywords: AUI ethernet cable tap[D[Dransceiver
Message-ID: <1043@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: 31 Jan 90 08:54:11 GMT
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK
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This may be a naive question but is it permissable to connect one ethernet
AUI cable from an ethernet device into another instead of connecting each
to a cable tap and have these tapped into an ethernet cable.
I want to plug a bridge into a repeater. I know that an ethernet device
provides power for a cable tap so I suppose there could be some confusion
if two devices were supplying power to each other.  If this is not permissable
is there any other way around this as it seems that you have to have a lot of
redundant equipment to achieve this connection when the two devices are
sitting next to each other.