question on thin ethernet networking

[saddy]

A -> B -> C

B shuts down. will A be able to communicate to C still? i'm totally new to this. 🙂

 

[Elledan]

No. If B shuts down, the connection to C will be lost for A.

In this case you would need a hub (or a switch 🙂 )

 

[saddy]

in that case, would it be best if B is the server computer?

 

[hans007]

what is thin ethernet? Is this like BNC 10base2? or something else.

 

[IsOs]

If you have thinnet and they are just peer to peer, if computer B is shutdown, the time that B is shutting down, network connections might get interupted. Afterwards, Computer A should still be able to see C. If computer B is turn on, while B is booting, A & C might get disconnected. If now is accessing at the time it's shutting down or booting up, then your Ok. Now if you have drive mapped between the computers, this might not hold true.

Thin ethernet uses BNC connectors.

 

[hans007]

oh ok, i remember those, my friends and i used to use them back before in 9th grade when we couldn't afford hubs. We called them BNC 10base2 coax network. If you take the T connector off of computer B it wont shut the network off, only if you break the circle (its like long line, with 2 terminators at the ends, so if you break this line you screw up the network since the 2 terminators aren't terminating anymore)