From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 11:56:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de (moutvdom01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2952A37B406 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.20.224.219] (helo=mrvdom03.schlund.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15rl0G-0001zZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:56:20 +0200 Received: from pd90172e8.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.114.232]) by mrvdom03.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15rl0G-0007vW-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:56:20 +0200 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:55:47 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" X-X-Sender: To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Hardware-advice requested: cables Message-ID: <20011011183109.L10968-100000@big> 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 Hi, this is not a genuine FreeBSD-question but there seem to many experienced networkers on this list. In our school we are trying to set up a classroom-network like this: In each classroom there is a fast-ethernet connection to a central server/gateway connection. Up to five or six Computers can be moved into the room, when they are needed and can be plugged into our lan via a hub. The problem is that fast-ethernet cables seem to be very sensitive. They break as soon as one looks too hard at them. Not to say what would happen, when our pupils/students tried to plug them themselves. What sort of cables/plugs can we use for this purpose? What does this have to do with FreeBSD? Now, our chief-administrator allowed me a 5Gig-partition on each Win2k-machine to "play around" with some kind of UNIX (registered trademark :-) ) . And perhaps I am allowed a samba-server one day... But first I have to get this project working. Thanx for your help. Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message