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- From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
- Subject: Token Ring wiring
- Message-ID: <BxwA18.3E1@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:34:20 GMT
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- I've got a couple of PS/2 Model 95's with both Token Ring and
- Ethernet cards. We use the Ethernet cards for NFS and printer-sharing
- (the net is shared with Sun's and DOS boxes), but the Token Rings,
- which were bundled with the PS/2's, are sitting idle. I'd like to try
- using them for some experiments (I have the NDIS drivers), but I
- don't know how the cabling works. I'm used to thin-net cabling, where
- one just runs a hunk of coax between stations and puts a terminator
- on the ends of the coax.
-
- Each Token Ring card came with a cable with a strange multi-spade
- connector at the end. How do I connect the two station cables
- together to make a ring? Do I need some kind of expensive hub box, or
- can I just fashion an adapter to directly connect the two cables
- together?
-