Legacy Linux Re: [Gllug] Ethernetworking

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

I have been read the stuff below with great interest, I have a love of 
legacy hardware and the idea of thick yellow cables with vampire taps 
make me drool. ;-)

Does anyone out there know of good links to sites with pics (porn) or 
even better tell me where I can get this stuff in the flesh very cheaply.

I have also just been given a very old but still functioning SGI 
Challenge DM network Server with external vault arrays.  I intend to put 
linux on it but people who know me know my Linux skills are pretty 
basic.  Could people out there please advise as to distributions to use, 
problems etc. I may encounter.  I hope eventually to be able to host 
sites and applications on it.

Thanks Jim

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On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 07:57 PM, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> john.hearns at framestore.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>
>> And is someone with more wisdom than I (I'm not THAT old Bill)
>> going to tell us all about big thick yellow cables - the true Ethernet,
>> and vampire taps?
>
> Heh heh. My office was using it, as recently as 1999. In September 99 we
> recabled switched 10/100 throughout, but prior to that, I had around 65
> machines, on no less than 14 separate 10base2 segements. The segments
> were linked by a stack of 10base2 repeaters, and the servers were all on
> a single segment of thick Ethernet, complete with vampire taps, AUI drop
> cables, and AUI to BNC converters......
>
> To get by the minimum distance between attachment points, the thicknet
> segment had been beautifully twisted, and did pretty S-bends all the way
> up the wall. One segment of 10base 2 had been chucked out of a top floor
> window, and tied off around the top end of the drainpipe....
>
> My old Novell server could transfer data at about 600KBps. When I stuck
> in a nice modern PCI based machine with a decent NIC, transfer rate went
> to about 30KBps (yes, 30). It was amusing to watch the collision counter
> increment faster than the good packets....
>
> Mike.
>
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