Are you sure this wasn't a demo of ARCNet? This sure sounds like the capabilities of ARCNet, except you didn't mention anything about a WAN link using paper clips :-)
Paul Werner p.s. The demo really isn't credible unless the barbed wire was rusty and it had cow hair/droppings on it ;-) > I actually saw a quite humorous demo of this on an IP Telephony > seminar in mid october. The network cabling was made up of > a pair of car battery cables (including clamps and all) linked to > two huge rolls of barbed wire, old band cable (the white, semi- > transparent twowire thingys used as radio and tv antennaes once > upon a time) and other non-category 5 cable plus a number > of nails, spikes and screws to attach everything. > > Over this they did the IP Telephony demo with three IP phones > of various models and the IP phone software etc. > > The most fun was seeing all the jaws dropping and hearing (quite) > a few versions of "Whaaaat the..." > > EoBW - Ethernet over Barbed Wire :-) ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30997&t=30678 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]