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From: BILLW@mathom.cisco.com (WilliamChops Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: RE: strange behavior...
Message-ID: <23256@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 9 Jul 90 08:58:04 GMT
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   We still haven't resolved if this could result in the symptoms described
   earlier.  If, say, the Cabletron repeater was close to being out of
   spec but in the minus direction (-.01%) and the cisco's interface
   was out of spec in the plus direction (+.03%), could this potentially
   cause problems?  This would be probably be installation specific e.g. 
   segment length etc. would come into play, right?

It is difficult to say, without knowing the exact nature of the problem.

I would think that the packets would be much more likely to be dropped at
the transceiver or repeater, as the ethernet interface itself is not
particurally sensitive to the clock rate.  Since in the original problem,
other devices on the same MT-800 could see the packets going in both
directions, I would suspect something else.  I have seen MT-800s that
seem to have problems talking between two particular ports, even though
everything else seems to work fine.

BillW
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