The connector is the network (3

[Reg Clemens]

What you need is a REAL electronics store or a catalog.  For less than $3
per machine you can buy a little package of those threaded extenders that
are on the rest of the connectors on the back back of the CPU and a
plastic shell to replace the one currently on the ethernet (DB15)
connector.  You back out the screws that hold down that spring steel thing
that is supposed to hold in the ethernet connector, and replace them with
the extenders. You replace the current plated shell with the new plastic
one.  Then you can screw down the damn connector just like a RS232 line.

I did this last week to four machines here.  You don't even have to power
them off while your doing it.... works fine...no more need for little
piles of hardware to try to support this wondrous IEEE standard.

                                Reg.Clemens
                                clemens at afwl.af.mil