Almost free 2-port and 4-port fanouts, IEEE 802.3 compliant, Ethernet Version 1.0 and 2.0 compatible AUIs

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue Mar 21 18:51:48 2000

Chuck McManis asked:
> I'm confused, aren't these "fan out" units just hubs?

Aaron Christopher Finney replied:
> These simply provide multiple ports on a single tap. I indicated my
> interest in them for the thick ethernet segment in my garage, as I only
> have 3 transceivers tapped into it at the moment. Physically, they just
> connect to the tapped transciever.

Which, as Chuck suggests, is a effectively a description of a hub, albeit one
that has AUI interfaces rather than 10-base-T. Ethernet hubs are technically
multiport repeaters, and are subject to all of the topology and distance
limits of repeaters.
Received on Tue Mar 21 2000 - 18:51:48 GMT