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- From: k@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Kao)
- Subject: Re: Moving from coax to 10BaseT
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:57:03 GMT
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard
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- don provan
- > In my building, they just give each engineer an eight port 10baseT
- > fan-out unit (i guess the official term is "micro repeater"). I've
- > got two in my office. Am i breaking some 10baseT rule?
-
- No. 10baseT rules say you can have up to four repeaters between any two
- nodes; five if one is a fiber repeater. (Four if all the repeaters are
- fiber repeaters.) Since all the 10baseT repeaters I know about have
- both 10baseT and 10base2 (ThinCoax), there should be no problem
- migrating an old network to 10bT. Drop a repeater off the coax and plug
- 10bT devices into the repeater's 10bT ports. In fact, HP recommends
- using 10b2 as the backbone of its 10bT repeaters and bridges.
-
- - Steve Kao
-