Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cable Taps/No Cable Taps.
Message-ID: <1990Feb6.173638.16776@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1043@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 90 17:36:38 GMT

In article <1043@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> hollandm@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Martin Holland) writes:
>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.

Unfortunately, no.  The signals on the AUI cable are not symmetrical; you
need electronics in between.  Usually the cheapest way to do this is to
use a multi-port transceiver/AUI, as most of them can be configured so
that they don't need to actually connect to an Ethernet cable.
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