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From: ted@blia.sharebase.com (Ted Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet cabling/repeater specifications?
Summary: they're both the same!
Message-ID: <13408@blia.sharebase.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 21:35:20 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.050705.5029@tmsoft.uucp>
Organization: ShareBase Corp, Los Gatos, CA
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In article <1991Jan23.050705.5029@tmsoft.uucp>, mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels) writes:
> I have gotten 2 or 3 different references.  DEC says no more than 2 repeaters
> between nodes.  Black Box says no more than 2 inter repeater links which I
> would take to mean 3 repeaters with 2 links between the three?  Any others 
> out there?

Both DEC and Black-Box are saying the same thing. By "inter-repeater link",
they mean a point-to-point link (generally fiber) between half-repeater
(otherwise called remote-repeater) pairs. The general rule is that no pair
of stations can be separated by more than two repeaters. You may substitute
2 half-repeaters connected by fiber for one or each of those.

Hope this clears it up.

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Ted Marshall                                       ted@airplane.sharebase.com
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