On 12 May 2002, Alex White wrote:
> Hello Again!
>
> I'm going to be getting the rest of the bits for my IPC this weekend, I
> was wondering how I could network it up without resorting to thicknet. I
> have a hub that Does AUI, 10-bT and thinnet, the IPC has AUI as well.
> The official way to link the two (female) AUI ports is two tranceivers
> and a thicknet cable which I can't be done with - I have been reading
> about an AUI crossover cable, with maybe a homebrew collision generator
> PCB...
>
> Any experience with this sort of thing, guys? Tips?
Find yourself a 10Base2 or 10BaseT AUI transciever. Building an AUI
concentrator might be fun, but I'm sure it'd be a pain in the preverbial
ass. Look on eBay, there's usually stuff like this there. Four of them
are listed right now:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&ebaytag1code=0&query=AUI+transciever
-- Pat
Received on Sun May 12 2002 - 11:16:15 BST