> When I had the need to wire a building around 1987, I opted for the > multiport 10Base5 repeaters that DEC made -- they were called DELUAs, > I think. I'd had quite enough of distributed single points of failure, > thank you.
Think those were something else; DEMPR = Digital Ethernet Multi Port Repeater DELNI = Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect ("hub") Threw some away a few years ago. > Hey, I had that in my house on my 100BaseT network, till I upgraded > to gigE and had to give in and buy another switch. (Sigh -- home > network configurations of NANOGers. I'm contemplating putting in > VLANs now...) VLAN's == fun ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.