> I don't know either, but I might hazard a guess that they originated in the
> days of thick ethernet, when taps were expensive, and had to be fitted at
> specific intervals on the thick coax. Then perhaps it might make sense to
> connect two devices to one tap/transceiver. I'm just guessing, though.
>
> Now if they'd been the other "gender", so to speak -- ie, if they could be
> used to connect one device to two transceivers -- it would be tantamount to
> a bridge. Then I could probably use one as a media converter by adding
> both a 10base2 and a 10baseT transceiver, and link the 10base2 part of my
> home network to the 10baseT part without leaving a power-hungry repeater
> running all the time. I don't think they'll do that though. I once tried
> it with two transceivers back to back, and just got millions of collisions.
Couldn't they be used to divide a termination domain? IE the multiport
transceiver sits between two branches of a thin-net network, protecting against
loss of termination on either branch? Obviously they'd still be in the same
collision domain...
--
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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