Din On A Nic...

[manadren_it]

I just got back from an interview for a "technology specialist" position for an area school system. Part of the interview was to identify a couple cards [I wowed him on this part, though I kinda flubbed up on the troubleshooting scenerio]. One of the cards was a 3com nic with both rj45 and DIN connectors [D-shaped connectors, kinda lie the serial or printers ports on the back of your computer].

So for all you hardware people, and to boost this forum a littl e bit, anyone actually seen a network that used DIN connectors? And if so, what for? Token ring? 10base500? Fiber?

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[Red Squirrel]

Yeah I've seen it I think. Does it look like a monitor connection? I think it's token ring, but I'm not sure. All I know is that it's old. Some isa cards I got have it.

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[manadren_it]

yeah, the standard analog monitor connector is a din connector too. I've seen nics with din connectors before too, but I've never actually seen one where it was used. It could be token ring, that's what first poped into my head when I looked at it, since token ring uses rj45's too... actually token ring is the only kind of netowrk that uses the 16mbit cat4 cable. But at the same time, token ring is almost never used, and when it is, it's usually an ibm job, so this kinda makes me think it's more a thicknet thing [10base500] because those networks use vampire taps which I think may actually connect to the nic via a din. Though the guy giving the interview [who has never actually seen anyone use it either] said something about it connecting to some kind of aui for fiber. So I don't know what it was.

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[wldkos]

Token rings in school? Or was this the administration office? Sorry for no help here.

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