31 Aug
2018
31 Aug
'18
12:32 p.m.
Allied Telesis made a "multi port tap" that provided four AUI ports off a
single Ethernet tap. I don't know if it was a repeater/hub inside, or what.
It was much smaller than a DELNI or DEREP.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:33 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Aug 31, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Grant Taylor via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 08/31/2018 01:07 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote:
> Yeah, I forget what the original allowed length was for drop cables,
but I
seem to remember it striking me as quite long! A few feet of CAT5 (or
even better, STP) has a lot of wiggle room :P
I think I've seen reports of multi AUI port taps. Correct?
You may be thinking of the DELNI, a multi AUI hub. Not a repeater,
apparently. DEC also made a repeater in that era, the DEREP -- just two
ports. That may be why the DELNI was built, as a way to get more fanout
without the complexity of a multiport repeater built out of discrete
electronics.
Could you have one multi-port tap in a computer
lab (of 5 ~ 20 machines)
and connect them all to the single tap? Sort of like what
is done with
10BaseT cables to a hub in the room?
Yes, the DELNI allowed for that, you'd plug in up to 8 NICs and then
connect the uplink port to a transceiver.
paul