On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:57:06PM +1300, Craig Falconer wrote:
> That's an end-to-end measurement probably... You're not supposed to have a
> NIC closer than X mm to the switch/hub, regardless of whether its one length
> of cable, or a flylead, in-wall cable and a patch cable.
Yes, end-to-end between signal transmitter/reciever was my memory... of
course, yeah, patch leads are exempt.. (since they link to longer cable,
usually)
> I do remember that coax / 10base2 cable was a minimum of two metres/yards.
Yep, that was to do with the wavelength of the signal on the coax. too
short, and it reflects back on itself and causes all sorts of interesting
signal degradation.
> Whats a stallion easy server? Sounds like something a paddock of mares
> would hire from a stud farm....
Serial server. (I'd URL you, but stallion.com is down for me, at work).
Think one ethernet port, 16 serial ports. chuck in in the rack, and you can
suddenly have serial access to all your servers.... (good when you screw up
the network config). Bought on trademe, for those interested.
Mike.
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