Thicknet Transceiver

Hi, I have a thicknet transceiver here, an Allied CentreCOM 440, that has 4 AUI ports and an attachment to the backbone with a vampire tap. I was wondering if I can use this thing without connecting to a coax back bone at all, and still be able to network between the four computers attached? If I did so, would I need to terminate the would-be coax connection somehow? I have a bunch of computers sitting around here, mostly older SparcStations, that only have AUI connections, and it would be cheaper if I didn't have to convert each one to 10baseT. I was thinking that I might be able to use this box to connect 2 or 3 of those, and then have a Linux box connected to one port bridging it to the rest of the network. Thanks for any relevant (or hell, even irrelevant but interesting) information. Rob Lion -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT/E d- s:- a--- C++(++++) ULS+ P+ L+ E- W++ N+(++) o K w+++ O- M- V- PS+(+++) PE--(+) Y+ PGP t- 5- X+ R- tv b++ DI++ D++ G++ e h+ r- y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------