Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:21:40 -0700 From: rick norman <rick.norman@lmco.com> To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hardware-advice requested: cables Message-ID: <3BC5F144.6C123E40@lmco.com> References: <20011011183109.L10968-100000@big>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] 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:vcardhome | help
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