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Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?)
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:20:08 +0100
In article <DAA7E8AD-EFFF-4076-85DB-1CDC19AFA483 () cs columbia edu>, Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> writes
Remember, it was this strange time when people were uncertain about how networks were going to evolve, and what the next thing would be, and even then, 10baseT was being deployed over Cat3 (sometimes recycled/ repurposed), so any sort of "enabling" gadget such as these cards had a tendency to be abused in various ways.Right -- the wire and pin assignments for 10BaseT and 100BaseT were designed to permit sharing the cable between Ethernet and phone.
I wired a new-build house (of mine) like that in 1995. The CAT5 cable was expensive enough that it made sense to share. And it worked. The bigger challenge was getting Internet to the house, not round the house.
Ten years later, both voice and data would probably have been better done by wireless (DECT and wifi respectively).
-- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- Re: what about 48 bits?, (continued)
- Re: what about 48 bits? joel jaeggli (Apr 06)
- Re: what about 48 bits? John Kristoff (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Roland Perry (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Roland Perry (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Lamar Owen (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Steven Bellovin (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Joe Greco (Apr 08)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Roland Perry (Apr 08)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Michael Thomas (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Michael Thomas (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Roland Perry (Apr 08)
- Re: what about 48 bits? A.B. Jr. (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Scott Howard (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Larry Sheldon (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Kevin Oberman (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 05)