[wellylug] Dummy ethernet crossover?

[Edmund A. Hintz]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004, jumbophut thus spake:

>Well, this may or may not be helpful, but back when BNC connectors
>were standard, you had to have a terminator-gizmo at the end of the
>the loop.  (I used to love how the entire network died when one
>machine's connector came loose). Anyway, maybe you could get your
>hands on a terminator by googling BNC?
>
>I vaguely recall that the terminator just reflected the signal back
>along the loop, but I'm sure wiser and more experienced wellyluggers
>will correct me if I'm wrong.


    Yeah, I remember it well... Those networks were pain incarnate... I
figure I probably need something like that, but don't really know enough
about the technology to fully grok exactly what I need(I've not tried to
hack ethernet at this level before). Hopefully those wiser and more
experienced folks will be along shortly. ;-)

Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed at hintz.org