10BaseT Friendlynet media adapter - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Feb 2002

On Feb 8, 14:58, Chris wrote:

...
  That sounds like the Farallon transceivers. They had
an AAUI to RJ45
 cable, and then a box that plugged into that RJ45 end. The box would then
 go to whatever port type you were using.

 So yes... that cable should go to the box's RJ45 port (which should be
 labled as Computer, with the 10b-2 side labeled as Network... at least
 the 10b-T ones I have are labeled that way)

 I have always wanted to just plug that AAUI to RJ45 cable into a hub and
 see if it works without the box... but I have never been willing to risk
 frying something. 
It doesn't work but it doesn't do any harm :-)   On another occasion, I
tried the converse: RJ45 patch from hub to transceiver, and 10base2 coax on
the other side.  To no-one's surprise, it don't work either.  To redeem my
reputation (if I ever had one) I should point out that the only reason I
tried it was that the unit I had wasn't labelled and no-one knew what it
was at the time.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York