From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 12:48:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A4B37B405 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5BJlxX5092778 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:47:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17HrcV-00043W-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:47:59 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast .... References: <20020611181438.32647.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 11 Jun 2002 14:47:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020611181438.32647.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <87d6uxegwg.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-06-11T18:14:38Z, faisal gillani writes: > well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this > question & i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well > i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the > distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the > normal lan hardware .. I'm not saying that this is an ideal solution, but could you install a cheap 4-port switch (not hub!) every 100 meters? Since switches generates signals themselves, rather than just passing the original electrical signal, that might extend your range sufficiently. Anyone care to tell me if or why this is a bad idea? -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message