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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu
Subject:   Re:  thickwisre<->thinwire
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970926111233.14652A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <97Sep26.103620pdt.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Bill Fenner wrote:

> >Does anyone know where I could go to get a thickwire to thinwire
> >converter?  I've not had any luck searching it out yet.
> 
> It's called a "transceiver" - you can get them for thinwire(BNC) or
> 10baseT.  They're probably getting harder to find now that pretty much
> all new equipment is 10baseT, but you can surely find one somewhere.

  They are still pretty easy to find.  A lot of common networking gear
(ex.  Cisco 2501) only have AUI interfaces, so it up to the user to add
the appropriate transceiver to get the desired media type.

>   Bill

Tom




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