From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 12:29:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE6437B406 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA30596; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:29:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38886) id <0GL2004010RACE@lmco.com>; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cui1.lmms.lmco.com ([129.197.1.64]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38886) with ESMTP id <0GL2003WA33D33@lmco.com>; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lmco.com (CONNECTICUT1.lmms.lmco.com [129.197.23.84]) by cui1.lmms.lmco.com (8.11.0/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f9BJLC611180; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:21:40 -0700 From: rick norman Subject: Re: Hardware-advice requested: cables To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Message-id: <3BC5F144.6C123E40@lmco.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_a9MYCA6c3RZCYyyFUcYGyg)" X-Accept-Language: en References: <20011011183109.L10968-100000@big> 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_a9MYCA6c3RZCYyyFUcYGyg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I've used Cat 5 twisted pair extensively for 10/100 BaseT connections and never had a problem. Just buy a spool, some TP connectors, and a crimp tool. and you're in business. Of course, you may not have a Frye's locally. Rick "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" wrote: > 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 --Boundary_(ID_a9MYCA6c3RZCYyyFUcYGyg) Content-type: text/x-vcard; name=rick.norman.vcf; charset=us-ascii Content-description: Card for rick norman Content-disposition: attachment; filename=rick.norman.vcf Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT begin:vcard n:norman;rick tel;cell:650 303 3877 tel;work:408 742 1619 x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:rick.norman@lmco.com note:Logically speaking, logic is innappropriate. x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:rick norman end:vcard --Boundary_(ID_a9MYCA6c3RZCYyyFUcYGyg)-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message