Grounding Ethernet Cable on a Ship?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday November 23, 2002 @03:13PM from the dealing-with-a-literal-floating-ground dept.

wrschaeffer asks: "On a ship (a vessel at sea) where a floating ground exists, we are running shielded Ethernet cable to connect between 5 and 10 PC in our LAN. We are unsure on the grounding requirement. ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) has no requirements concerning grounding of Ethernet cable (just smoke and waterproof standards). We have many possibilities: ground one end; ground every end; ground every end and install a isolation transformer at the punch-down block; or don't ground any end. What should we do?"

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Re: your sig by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-23 18:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The linux price to performance ratio is zero

Attempting to calculate the performance to price ratio will result in a divide by zero error.

This error can easily be avoided by making a donation to Debian.