Retro networking / WAN communities

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/11/22 4:18 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
> Were there ever actual true 10b2 switches?

I've seen 10Base-T versions of -- what I would call -- bridges in box 
for sale.

I've seen /many/ different software products that could be installed on 
computers with supported interfaces to be bridges.  You could easily 
have 10Base2 / 10Base5 in those.

IMHO an unmanaged switch is an evolution of a bridge.  Or in the past, I 
used to say (a very long time ago) a switch was was three or more ports 
and a bridge was exactly two ports.  --  Probably inaccurate in some 
way.  But it worked for the conversation at the time.

> I've only ever seen them as hubs, and I haven't seen a 10bT switch that 
> had a 10b2 port (all the 10bT devices I have with 10b2 ports are hubs).

I /want/ to say that I've seen a switch with AUI or BNC connectors on 
it.  But I can't remember any off hand.  Maybe something modular that 
has optional add-in cards.  But I can't think of any fixed configuration 
switches with AUI / BNC.



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Grant. . . .
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