From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 26 10:38:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA17912 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA17907 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.7.3) id TAA04140; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:37:50 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199709261737.TAA04140@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: thickwisre<->thinwire In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Sep 26, 97 12:39:15 pm" To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:37:50 +0200 (MEST) Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Chuck Robey who wrote: > I'm doing a bit of computer re-arrangement (keeps my life interesting) and > I find I have to connect another computer to my existing home ethernet. > Trouble is, the ethernet is thinwire, and the new computer (a DECStation > 5000/120, which will be running NetBSD) is thickwire. I'm going to be > connecting it to my two existing FreeBSD boxes. > > Does anyone know where I could go to get a thickwire to thinwire > converter? I've not had any luck searching it out yet. Does the DECStation connect via an AUI cable ?? Then you just need one of those little gizmos that plug in to the AUI connector and has a BNC connector in the other end.... Or you could get nasty and get a connector that fits on the end of the think cable and a converter from that to BNC, both cables are 50 Ohms, so it works, just is a bit unusual :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..