Re: Desperately need help with peer network

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From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:00

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In article <MJg11oHpv22X092yn@skypoint.com>
           rsteiner@skypoint.com "Richard Steiner" writes:

> Here in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, "Simon Hampton" <simon.hampton@tvd.be>
> spake unto us, saying:
> 
> >Please stop me going crazy with setting up a little peer network between
> >two computers using a co=ax cable.
> 
> You using BNC connecters (the twisty coax connectors)?  I used to have
> my boxes connected in DOS using that, but I used tee-connectors on each
> box, and I put a terminator at each end as well (connected to the tee).
> 
> Maybe that's not needed for a two-box thinnet connection...?

It is, it is.  The original poster didn't mention how he has thinsg
arranged; he MUST have 2off 50R terminators, 2off T-pieces, 1off
coax-cable.  One CANNOT connect two network cards directly with 10base2
without terminators.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
      "You're one of the very rare few who can argue ad hominem, ad absurdum
       and ad nauseam simultaneously...worse still it looks like you want to
       carry on ad infinitum..."               WPSM on alt.config 1998/06/27

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Subject: Re: Desperately need help with peer network
Date: 1998/08/16
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