On 3/25/23 05:40, Sean Kamath wrote:
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>> On Mar 24, 2023, at 15:00, deichert@placebonol.com wrote:
>> chuckle, hopefully my explanation was useful. I've been doing this network thing since 10Mb thickwire Ethernet with all the fun of piranha taps, AUI connectors and properly terminated segments.
> We called them "vampire taps". :-)
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> Sean
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I was wondering about the terminology used: "thickwire"...
now that you mention vampire taps... that was actually called "thick
net" :-) (maybe different on the international circuit or internal
jargon of entities... hence what Diana just called it) of course before
my time, but as an enthusiastic university student 20 years ago now we
were taught about this in network history classes (although my branch
was actually electrical and electronic engineering), I don't think they
even came up when I did my Cisco qualification.... the most historic
thing there was the old analog hubs hahaha, oh and that came with a big
disclaimer of "do not use!" lol
Even back then I was considered a total rebel though as everyone was
treating computer hardware and network hardware separately (I guess even
back then the corporate fashion of today had already started) while I
was busing playing around with stuff like Quagga and Zebra then trying
to make (I think it was OSPF at the time) talk to the Cisco 2800 series
routers we had.
For me OpenBSD came a little later but still it was a lot of fun... just
trying to connect things together and make them work and talk to each
other... I really enjoyed that!
Kaya
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