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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:22:04 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Mark <offworld@richnet.net>
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Subject: Re: Is BSD capable??
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:22:06PM -0400, Mark wrote:
> Is BSD capable of taking 2 half duplex NICs like with a coax (BNC) cabled
> network and having them work "send only" and "receive only" to form a full
> duplex link? For that matter, is any of the *nux OS's capable of doing th=
is?
> Or Cisco for that matter. I have a project that needs this type of soluti=
on,
> making a full duplex network out of 2 half duplex devices. Any hope for m=
e?
> Just a man or howto would be more than enough.

Full duplex communication on coax (a shared medium) isn't even a valid
concept.  If you're talking no one else can be, there's literaly only
one wire.  What do you actually want to do here?

-- Brooks

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