On 31 Jul 96 08:48am, Mike Bilow wrote to Doug Joorish:
MB> Doug Joorish wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
MB> No, a coax Ethernet device would never have internal
MB> termination, since this would prevent it from being
MB> used in the middle of a cable segment.
DJ> If it were a hub, you wouldn't want to use it in the middle
DJ> of a segment... it would be intended as a terminator... at
DJ> least, that's the way I would use it...
MB> There is no reason that a hub could not be in the middle of a
MB> segment.
There would be if the hub was internally terminated.
George
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