Re: Cheap network for two hosts ?

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:18:58 -0300

"Anthony Barbachan" <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com> said:
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> said:
> >For two hosts, you can use 10Base-T or 100Base-TX cards without a hub
> >using a crossover cable, as well. It's a lot less messy than coax,
> >and support for coax is going the way of the dodo. Of course, coax
> >won't do 100 Mbit/s at all.

> Problem with the crossover cable is that it only works for two machines.
> While coax may not be the latest and greatest it definately works
> perfectly well for many if not most people, providing you do not have a
> large number of machines on the network.

But it's a mess. You have to be very careful with conectors, terminators,
Ts; and make sure nobody trips over the network. It's cheap, but a 8-way
hub isn't _that_ expensive... and you'll save that much on <insert favorite
headache pill here> in short time.

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