Talk:Attachment Unit Interface

Lead
"An Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) is a 15 pin connection that provides a path between a node's Ethernet interface and the Medium Attachment Unit, sometimes known as a transceiver. It is the part of the IEEE Ethernet standard located between the MAC, and the MAU." That is not entirely true. AUI is located between PLS (physical layer signalling) and MAU. PLS is considered to be the upper part of Data-Link layer in ISO OSI model and it performs Manchester encoding in case of 10 Mbit/s Ethernet.
 * This appears to have been addressed. ~Kvng (talk) 20:27, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

GBIC or GMII
I think the opening paragraph should list AUI's successor as GBMII. I'm not sure enough to change it mind you... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.242.64.52 (talk) 02:25, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I thought
internal tranceiver became the norm with 10base2. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Plugwash 01:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Many if not most 10base2 cards have the AUI port in addition to the BNC connector Jasen betts (talk) 02:41, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Fast Ethernet MII interface
The article states "By the mid-all but disappeared as fast ethernet, which has no direct equivalent of AUI, became more common." ... actually, Fast Ethernet does define an "MII" port that's analogous to AUI, although it was never widely used. The first generation of Cisco router FastEthernet cards shipped with MII. The port is a 50-pin high-density connector (HD50), the same as what some SCSI-2 devices use. Maximum MII cable length is much shorter than for AUI... something on the order of 1-2 meters. 209.27.71.34 16:42, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Sliding Clip
the photo claiming to be the "DEC EtherWorks LC (DE100) ethernet controller" has screw fittings (like a game port) instead of the sliding clip. Jasen betts (talk) 20:21, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Apologie
I remember that the designers of the sliding clip apologised to the world for the inconvenience they created with this design (was it in Byte Magazine ?). But a quick search didn't find a reference. Anyone remembers/know of a reference ? Rps (talk) 18:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I seem to recall something about this too, but I haven't the vaguest idea when it was I originally read this. In addition to standard retention screws and sliding clip retention mechanisms, there was a third type of retention also commonly used in the early days of 10BASE5. It was a metal bracket slightly larger than the sliding clip which slipped over the two posts of the transceiver cable plug and was then secured to the transceiver or network card with two screws. The screw posts on the transceiver or network card were located further out from the connector retention screws by 4-5mm. I still have some of the brackets and devices which could use them on hand, but I have no idea when I'll get around to photographing them. Perhaps we should include coverage of both of these retention mechanisms in D-subminiature along with some basic information and a link here? --Tothwolf (talk) 23:26, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

AAUI
Apple introduced AAUI on the first Macs with built in ethernet - Quadra 700 and 900 in 1991. In 1995 with the 7200, they started using Rj-45 but kept the AAUI port. Apple didn't discontinue AAUI until 1998. These are the last Macs with AAUI http://lowendmac.com/ppc/beige-power-mac-g3-1998.html And, this link isn't encyclopaedic in the least, but interesting note that someone has memories of AAUI on non-apple hardware: http://lowendmac.com/mail/mb07/0906.html#8 This is the most definitive link: http://lowendmac.com/tech/aaui.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.243.34 (talk) 02:02, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

DIX
Very early interfaces refer to the AUI connect as a "DIX" connector. I think (but am not sure) that DIX stood for Digital/Intel/Xerox - the lead companies that developed Ethernet. 192.100.51.131 (talk) 21:32, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Pre-IEEE Ethernet was generally called "DIX Ethernet", hence "DIX connector". --Zac67 (talk) 06:37, 19 August 2021 (UTC)