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From: aaron@zippy.telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Plugging repeater into DELNI: why not?
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.123047.397@arizona.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 19:30:46 GMT
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According to my trusty DEC _Telecommunications and Networks
Buyer's Guide_ (Jul 90, p. A-14):

  * A repeater cannot be connected to a DELNI.

No explanation, no details.  (I recently attended a DEC
seminar on Ethernet configurations & asked the instructor
for details on this restriction, but only offered a little
mumblage.)

Is there any inherent limitation in a multiport transceiver
that prevents repeaters from being plugged into them?  Or is
this just some bogosity in the DELNI as built by DEC?

Can 3rd party repeaters be plugged into DELNIs?  Can DEC
DEREPs be plugged into 3rd party multiport transceivers?
Can 3rd party repeaters plug into third party multiports?

Aaron

Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
University of Arizona Telecommunications, Tucson AZ 85721