Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!slc6!lim From: lim@slc6.INS.CWRU.Edu (Hock Koon Lim) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Re: Cisco AGS+s and Cabletron FOTs Message-ID: <1991May14.133313.27410@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 14 May 91 13:33:13 GMT References: <1991May09.144306.3930@shl.com> <1475@nih-csl.nih.gov> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: lim@po.CWRU.Edu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: slc6.ins.cwru.edu In article ssw@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) writes: >In <1475@nih-csl.nih.gov> kabara@alw.nih.gov (Joe Kabara) writes: > >>you can use the Cabletron FOTs back-to-back, you just need to put a repeater >>between the tap on your etherent and the FOT you try to hook up to this. > >These FOTs also work back-to-back to another DTE device, like a router. >We connection ciscos to ciscos and the combo works well. When we Yes, it work well in this configuration. >are trying to connect a remote ethernet to a cisco via fiber, we >use the DEC fiber optic repeater at the far end. It works just >fine in with the cabletron FOT. You mean you can connect the firber port of the DEC fiber optic repeater to the fiber port of the Cabletron FOTs? I thought that only the FOIRL equipment will work together over fiber. I don't think the DEC fiber optic repeater is the FOIRL equipment. -- Hock-Koon Lim, Information Network services Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA 44106 (216) 368-2982 lim@ins.cwru.edu