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From: paul@aucs.uucp (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet 4-repeater limit
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.113650.19000@aucs.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 89 11:36:50 GMT
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Organization: Acadia University - School of Computer Science
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glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko) writes:


>During most casual conversations about ethernet I've heard "you can
>have a maximum of four repeaters between any two nodes on an
>ethernet".  I took this to mean that you can have five segments
>max with nodes on each segment.  I recently read a short blurb
>that said something like some of the segments cannot have nodes
>on them - the three in the middle, I guess it meant.  Is this so?
>Say it isn't ...

In our ethernet segment, we have a maximum of four repeaters in a
row and we also have nodes hung off of every repeater without problems.
IN our situation, we use multiport repeaters at the each end of an
optical star, which means in general we only have 2 repeaters between
every node. However, in some buildings we have a Western Digital
lattisnet repeater connected to one of the thin segments from a
multiport repeater, thus giving us 4 repeaters in a row in some
situations.  We aren't really vvery happy with our design but it
works.

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