On Fri, 3 May 2002 18:36:24 +0000 Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> wrote: > Andrew > > > The cheapest and easiest way is to put both 10base2 > > (BNC/coax/thinnet) and 10baseT (RJ45/twisted pair) cards in one > > machine. > > > No, I just put one card in with a BNC and RJ45 connection on it. Lot > cheaper that way. Means I can use either. RJ45 & BNC don't work at the same time on the same NIC, unless it is a genuine dual port NIC (expensive and hard to get hold of). I meant (in Darrell's case if you read his post) in an environment where he wants to bridge between a 10baseT (RJ45) network and 10base2 (BNC) network. It is cheaper & easier to put 2 cards (1xBNC + 1xRJ45) into the firewall box than to track down a tranceiver to translate between the two hardware standards (Maplin do one, order code VL99H, a snip at £76.59+VAT) Practically all cards with BNC connectors also have RJ45 anyway (unless they were _really_ cheap & nasty). --Andrew -- sparc sun4c stuff: http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk/sparc PGP key for list [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk: http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk/list.freeserve.co.uk.asc
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