What ever happened to the 5-4-3 rule <grin> Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:brian.w...@teldta.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL I inherited a network many years ago that was 10Base2 in the walls and all one giant loop. The guy who was "managing" the network added 2 port repeaters randomly in the network when things got flakey (after he added another user for example). One day I found a big pile of cable up in the ceiling that was all part of the network - it was about 200 feet in 20-30 foot chunks all connected by T connectors that were sitting there not connected to anything. It took a long time to get that stabilized - I ended up taking out all the 2 port repeaters and putting in one 8 port unit so I had reasonable numbers of machines on each run. -Brian _____ From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL I had a whole building full of co-ax. With no way to test any of it when I got started, I ended up with a leg over 800feet in length. It was "flakey" to say the least. Once I got a tester and found the length and shortened it it became much more reliable. Most of my users were so afraid of the things they never moved anything - I had to do it. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Free, Bob<r...@pge.com> wrote: > Bingo. Most of the 5250 cards had TwinAx connections so the > cabling/terminations were one more variable in getting to damn things to > work. How about BNC 10BASE2? Nothing like having the entire LAN go down because some luser decided to unplug their computer to move it to the other side of their desk... -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
