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In article <1992Oct8.134820.14855@philabs.philips.com> add@philabs.philips.com (Aninda V. Dasgupta) writes:
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>- A 9-pin to 9-pin cable that allows me to connect the two adapters on
>  the two computers together?  Will such a cable work if I don't care
>  about the fault detecting relays in a MAU?  (What else is a passive MAU
>  good for other than the bypass-relays in it?)
   
   It puts an impedance across the xmit and receive pairs.  Without
   which the ring interface will drop the phantom drive signal and
   de-insert.

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>- A Cheap 2-port MAU (within $250).  All the ones I have seen are way over
>  my meager budget.
>
    I can't imagine why you couldn't BUILD such a device, crossing
    over the appropriate wiring pairs and putting the proper
    impedance (balanced) across the leads to fake out the cable
    fault detection.

>It's so hard to believe that setting up a simple two-station ring requires
>the purchase of so much extra junk that I don't need (read: an 8-port MAU.)
   Hey, look at who came up with the idea.....you expect cheap from
   IBM?   >:-)