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- Thick Ethernet cabling
-
- This document contains cabling tips for thick ethernet (10Base5)
- networks. For more information on cabling a thick ethernet network,
- contact your local network supplier or call the IEEE (800-678-IEEE).
-
- This document (or an updated version) is also available on FaxBACK,
- document #6301.
-
- THICK ETHERNET:
- ---------------
-
- Thick ethernet is a linear bus topology that uses a COAX cable.
- If their is a break in the cable it will disrupt the entire segment.
-
- The thick ethernet COAX cable is usually brightly colored - yellow
- or blue. It will have "tap" markings every 2.5 meters. (These
- marks show where to connect transceivers.)
-
- Workstations are connected to a thick ethernet cable through the AUI
- port on the NIC, a "drop" cable (sometimes calles a transceiver cable)
- and a transceiver (or MAU).
-
- ----- thick ethernet cable
- |------------------| |------------------------------------|
- --+-- transceiver
- |
- | drop cable
- |
- ----+-------
- | | nic | workstation
- | |
- ------------
-
- A thick ethernet cable must be terminated at each end (50ohm terminators),
- and one end must be earth grounded. The internal coax shield must not
- make electrical contact with the earth ground.
-
- CABLE LENGTHS
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Max trunk length 500 meters (1640 feet)
- Max number of nodes per trunk 100
- Max number of trunks 5 (only 3 can have wkst attached)
- Max length of entire network 2500 meters (8200 feet)
- (all trunks added together)
- Min cable length between taps 2.5 meters (8 feet)
- Max length of drop cable 50 meters (164 feet)
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Up to 5 trunk segments may be connected (through repeaters), but
- only 3 of these segments can have workstations attached. Repeaters
- count as a workstation so if you have two repeaters on a segment then
- the maximum number of user workstations is 98.
-
- Example:
- no workstations no workstations
- | |
- v v
- |--+----------+ +--------+ +------+-------+ +--------+ +----+----|
- | | | | | | | | | | |
- | repeater repeater | repeater repeater |
- | | |
- workstation workstation workstation
- 1-99 1-98 1-99
-
-
- PINOUT FOR AUI PORT:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- shell = protective ground
- |
- ---------------------------------------------
- | o o o o o o o o |
- \ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 /
- \ /
- \ o o o o o o o /
- \ 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 /
- ---------------------------------
-
- PIN NAME AND FUNCTION
- 1 Control-in Shield. The shield for the CI twisted pair on the
- AUI cable.
-
- 2 Control-in Circuit A. The positive signal for the CI circuit.
- This circuit is used to send the mau_available and
- signal_quality_error messages to the equipment.
-
- 3 Data-out circuit A. The positive signal for the DO circuit.
-
- 4 Data-in Shield. The shield for the DI twisted pair in the AUI
- cable.
-
- 5 Data-in Circuit A. The positive signal for the DI circuit.
-
- 6 Voltage Common. The ground return for the VP circuit.
-
- 7 not connected
-
- 8 not connected
-
- 9 Control-in Circuit B. The negative signal for the CI circuit.
- This circuit sends the same signals as listed under pin 2.
-
- 10 Data-out Circuit B. The negative signal for the DO circuit.
-
- 11 Data-out Shield. The shield for the DO twisted pair in the AUI
- cable.
-
- 12 Data-in Circuit B. The negative signal for the DI circuit.
-
- 13 Voltage Plus. The power supply to the transceiver. The supply
- must remain in the range of 12V - 6% to 15V + 5%.
-
- 14 Voltage Shield. The shield for the VC and VP (pins 6 and 13)
- twisted pair.
-
- 15 not connected