You've got to be pulling my chain... (Ethernet)

From: Greg Troutman <mor_at_crl.com>
Date: Sat Apr 11 22:30:13 1998

Marvin wrote:
>
> Greg Troutman wrote:
>
> > No, Arcnet is a star topology, polling system, pretty similar to
> > token-ring.
>
> I think you will find that Arcnet was not just star topology. Most of the
> machines I set up were just daisy chained with terminators on both ends. I
> still have an Arcnet hub but found that daisy chaining was a lot simpler.

Yes, there were several topologies that could be built. All my
experience had been with the SMC line of hubs and I forgot about the
others.

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Received on Sat Apr 11 1998 - 22:30:13 BST

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