Thicknet Transceiver

From: Rob Lion <rnlion_at_its.caltech.edu>
Date: Sun Jul 22 05:49:31 2001

Hi,

I have a thicknet transceiver here, an Allied CentreCOM 440, that has 4 AUI
ports and an attachment to the backbone with a vampire tap. I was wondering
if I can use this thing without connecting to a coax back bone at all, and
still be able to network between the four computers attached? If I did so,
would I need to terminate the would-be coax connection somehow? I have a
bunch of computers sitting around here, mostly older SparcStations, that
only have AUI connections, and it would be cheaper if I didn't have to
convert each one to 10baseT. I was thinking that I might be able to use this
box to connect 2 or 3 of those, and then have a Linux box connected to one
port bridging it to the rest of the network.

Thanks for any relevant (or hell, even irrelevant but interesting)
information.

Rob Lion

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Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 05:49:31 BST