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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!gah
  2. From: gah@hood.hood.caltech.edu (Glen Herrmannsfeldt)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
  4. Subject: Re: AUI-AUI cable
  5. Message-ID: <gah.715037260@oldhood>
  6. Date: 28 Aug 92 21:27:40 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug21.114509.27193@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Aug22.104052.146@degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au> <1992Aug23.185102.16173@spectrum.CMC.COM>
  8. Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu
  9. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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  12.  
  13. In AUI loopback connectors, they put capacitors between the
  14. TX and RX pins,
  15.  
  16. I would think that you would want to do that in this case, too.
  17.  
  18. Otherwise, you have a grounding problem, because AUI is not
  19. isolated.  The isolation is in the tranceiver.
  20.  
  21. -- glen
  22.