At 09:57 AM 3/1/96 GMT, you wrote:
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>Soembody will probably correct me, but I think the twisted pair standard
>says that for 10Mb ethernet, the blue and brown pairs are not used. Of
>the orange and green pairs, one is tx, one is rx (thats wires 1&2, 3&6).
>I'm not sure which is which, but breaking one of those should make it
>receive-only.
>
>I dont know if it can be done with ethernet because of it being a
>contention kinda thing but is it posible to make a twisted-pair cable to
>only receive?
>
>I played around with the wiring but could not get it to work. Maybe it
>depends on what brand of card?
>
This is (I think) right. But I'll bet there isn't a standard ethernet driver
around that would work in this configuration. Dosen't mean you couldn't find
or write one.
Just curious, why do you want to do this?????
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