On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:14:45PM +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 12:31, Thomas Bridge wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:14:12PM +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> > > Do not waste your time trying to connect it over USB unless you have
> > > lots of time and programming experience, much better and much easier to
> > > do connect to it over Ethernet.
> > > [okay cat 5 but who wants to be that pedantic :) ]
> > If we're actually being pedantic, it is in fact ethernet.
> You might like to look at this:
>http://www.thocp.net/timeline/1978.htm
> the one true ethernet coaxial :)
Paul,
You might want to look at something called the OSI Network Layer
model.
Cat 5 is very definitely at Layer 1. Ethernet (as in sticking
stuff in ethernet frames) is very definitely layer 2.
Thomas
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