Transition Networks E-TBT-HB-0804 10-Mb/s Baseband Network Configuration Guidelines, LANMaster T8

10-Mb/s Baseband Network Configuration Guidelines

Ethernet 802.3 specifications define network configuration guidelines for the 10-Mb/s baseband network:

10BASE-T, 10BASE-2, and 10BASE-5 cable segments can be installed as a single Ethernet collision domain if the cable segments are connected using repeaters.

When connecting LANMaster T8 repeater hubs, the transmission path between any two Data Terminating Equipment (DTE) network devices can consist of no more than five segments. (A segment is the independent network cable connection between repeaters or between repeaters and network devices.)

To verify the network configuration by assigning segment numbers to cable connections:

1.Determine the two terminals in the network which are separated by the greatest number of segments.

2.Assign a segment path between the terminals by labeling the cable connected to one of the terminals “segment 1” and the segment connected

to the other terminal “segment n” (n = total number of segments ≤ 5).

3.To verify that no segment paths contain more than n segments, assign segment paths and numbers to all other terminals.

4.Verify than no more than three of the segments are 10BASE-2 or 10BASE-5 with multiple stations attached.

4 4

4 4 4

3 4 4

X – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 X – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 X – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

3

3 4 4

2	4
X – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	X – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1	5

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