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From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: network card problems
Date: 12 Jun 1997 20:23:16 GMT
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fredirc@intonet.co.uk (Dirc Evans):
> As a test installation it is only connected to one other machine using BNC,
> each end of which is plugged directly into both machines. having had no
> experience of BNC, is this wrong?

Probably yes.  For 10base2 you need T-pieces and termination resistors.

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