On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 08:59:32AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I would like to setup my home-net using 10bt cables between my linux and > windoze boxen, but the only way I have to run the cables is to run it out > a window, under the house, and back in a window. Is there any method of > protecting the cables & cards from lightning damage? Several pc's and a 16 > port concentrator died recently due to a very close lightning strike. > > Would running the cable thru some metal conduit protect me? Are there > devices similar to surge suppresors for ethernet cables?
Ouch. Sounds like Ethernet just isn't intended for the environment you're intending. You really can't drill a couple of holes in the floor or the walls? The metal conduit might help, but it may also attract the lightning .. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
