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From: greg@trefoil.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: network card problems
Date: 12 Jun 1997 15:17:25 GMT
Organization: BOGS Research Group
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Dirc Evans (fredirc@intonet.co.uk) wrote:
: As a test installation it is only connected to one other machine using BNC,
: each end of which is plugged directly into both machines. having had no
: experience of BNC, is this wrong?
No, you need a terminator (a small gismo which plugs in like a cable, but
which has a resistor inside) on each end of the cable run (only the two
endpoints are terminated).
TERMINATOR -- T-CONNECTOR -- CABLE ...
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CARD
-Greg