From: Mike Beattie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I imagine folks are aware that CAT5 has a minimum length requirement for 100Base-X stuff? >should be around 2.5M from memory.. >There is a *VERY* high likelyhood that I'm wrong, so correct me if so.
That's an end-to-end measurement probably... You're not supposed to have a NIC closer than X mm to the switch/hub, regardless of whether its one length of cable, or a flylead, in-wall cable and a patch cable. I do remember that coax / 10base2 cable was a minimum of two metres/yards. > If I'm right, I've broken it anyway, I have a short (ok, bloody short) cable between my > 24port hub (it was rack-mountable, sue me), and my stallion easy server. (16 port serial > server). The cable in question is about 7-10cm long. Whats a stallion easy server? Sounds like something a paddock of mares would hire from a stud farm....
