On 14/06/2007 08:39, der Mouse wrote:
> You'd end up with collisions, undetected by
the transmitters, and I
> don't know if 10baseT transmitters can handle that.
They must be able to at least tolerate it without
frying; that's
basically what you get if you connect two hosts with a straight cable -
or a host and hub with a crossed cable - so there'd be a lot of toasted
hardware if it weren't at least relatively harmless.
Of course -- in my eagerness to reply I forgot that minor detail!
Anyway, what
you're suggesting would connect all the Tx pairs
together (A to B, then B to C).
Doh! Of course. Oh well. So much for cheap pseudo-token-ring
Ethernets. :-/
You can still do it, so long as you write something to handle the tokens
and avoid things like TCP handshaking.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York