Rumor has it that Mike Ford may have mentioned these words:
>> I have a PureData Arcnet hub that I picked up in a thrift. It has 8BNC
>>connectors and 2 RJ11's labelled Arclink. It's dated Aug/90.
>> It came with a fuse missing and I've never had the occasion or
motivation to
>>check it out, nor the Arcnet NICs for that matter.
>
>What should I look for on a network card that would mark it as ARCNET
>instead of just coax something else?
At least in the PeeCee world, every arcnet card I've ever seen had an 8-up
DIP switch to set the Arcnet address - IIRC you can only have 256 arcnet
cards on a network.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 19:12:27 BST