Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 15:06:49 -0500 From: "Timothy A. Musson" <Timothy.A.Musson@grc.nasa.gov> To: "kathi" <kathi@telrite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <200003022003.PAA23748@ssdmail.aero2k1.net> In-Reply-To: <000801bf847c$5931a4a0$1ed6ecd0@teldialupisp.com.telrite.ne t>
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Think of it as a telephone for computers. For a telephone conversation you need: 2 people who want to talk to each other 2 phones, one for each person and phone lines (which includes a lot of switching and routing) For a computer conversation you need: 2 computers who want to talk to each other (transmit data) 2 ethernet cards, one for each computer and wires, or ethernet cables (which includes a lot of switching and routing, and can even use phone lines somewhere in the middle of all that) take a look at: http://www.dansdata.com/network.htm#Network Interface Card (ethernet cards are a more specific type of Network Interface Card, or NIC, also commonly referred to as just plain "network card") more general computer info: http://www.charm.net/learning.html and http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html p.s. This list is really meant for questions specific to the FreeBSD operating system. The above links were found using the keywords "beginner ethernet" and "beginner network card" on the search engine http://www.google.com -Tim At 02:20 PM 3/2/00 , you wrote: > > Would like to know in simple terms.....exactly what is an ethernet card and > what is it used for? Thanks, Kathi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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