Setting up a network and sharing internet

[Peter]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Henry Spencer wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Scott Allen wrote:
>>> ...a crossover cable works only for exactly two machines --
>>> there is no cable-only method for larger numbers...
>>
>> Actually, there are cable-only methods for more than two machines,
>> called 10-base2 or 10-base5. They link 10M ethernet over a coaxial cable
>> without hubs.
>
> Trouble is, there's no cable-only solution that will hook a modern machine
> to a 10Base2 or 10Base5 network at all.  They require that the machines
> have either 10Base2 or AUI interfaces (and for AUI, transceivers are also
> needed, which hardly qualifies as "cable-only").  Nobody builds those into
> machines any more, and interface cards which have them are scarce and
> costly (and, again, don't really qualify as "cable-only").
>
> The signalling conventions of 10Base5/10Base2 are not compatible with
> those of 10BaseT; you can't plug a 10BaseT-only machine into 10Base5
> or 10Base2 without electronics in between.

My older hub has one 10Base2 and 5 (?) 10BaseT sockets. While not 
cable-only this 10MBps hub will likely cost less than a cable crimper 
(2nd hand) ;-) I also have a few NICs with 10Base2 BNCs. At least one is 
PCI. They are the cheap no-name kind with RTL8109/8139 chips. I think it 
cost $12.

Peter
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