From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 07:10:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA18857 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 07:10:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from croute.com (ishm2.croute.com [199.97.106.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA18850 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 07:10:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from bldg1.croute.com by croute.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15060; Fri, 21 Mar 97 09:10:03 CST Received: from COMPUROUTE/SpoolDir by bldg1.croute.com (Mercury 1.21); 21 Mar 97 09:10:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from SpoolDir by COMPUROUTE (Mercury 1.30); 21 Mar 97 09:09:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Larry Dolinar" Organization: CompuRoute, Inc. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:09:52 -0600 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: a networking question... X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Larry Dolinar" X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal References: <199703201213.NAA05613@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Message-Id: <8E28EBD0F0B@bldg1.croute.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk And the clouds parted on 20 Mar 97, and Doug White said: >On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> sorry if I abuse of this group for a partially unrelated question... >> >> I am having a hard time in finding cheap Ethernet repeaters with >> BNC ports, whereas 10 Mb/s HUBs with 10BaseT RJ45 ports are now >> available for about $15/port. Is it possible to connect the AUI >> port of a BNC transceiver to the Tx/Rx pairs of an RJ45 port and >> make the connection work ? (of course with an external power supply) > Depends on what you mean by cheap. Addtron makes a 5-segment repeater that DataComm Warehouse here in the States is selling for $169 US. The ad's pretty small, but it looks like 1 AUI, 2 BNC, and 2 RJ45. You might have a look at http://www.warehouse.com/ and search for DER1096 (Data Comm catalog). I have no association with these people... hth, larry