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Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!operator
From: operator@watmath.waterloo.edu (Operators)
Subject: Ethernet to AHS/Arts/EnvSt/Sci cut; repairs underway
Message-ID: <1991May15.170938.6910@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility
Distribution: uw
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 17:09:38 GMT
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From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@watcgl>

Most people won't see this in uw.network, so I'll re-post it here:

| From rwwatt@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca Wed May 15 11:27:01 1991
| From: rwwatt@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Roger Watt)
| Newsgroups: uw.network
| Subject: damaged fibre cable
| Organization: University of Waterloo, Computing Services
| 
| The testing that began Monday morning has uncovered a couple of 
| problems (one computer in Science sending out bad Ethernet packets),
| and a problem somewhere in a fibre connection between MC and PHYSICS.
|  
| This morning, a fault was found in the fibre-optic cable that runs from
| an Ethernet repeater on the campus backbone cable to a fibre hub that 
| connects to the Ethernet cabling systems in Arts, AHS, Environmental
| Studies, and Science.
| 
| The test equipment we have tells us that the cable is damaged, but not
| where along its 500m length the damage is. An external company that has
| such testing equipment has been called and has dispatched a technician.
| In the meantime, communication between AHS/Arts/EnvSt/Sci and the
| rest of the network is almost nonexistent.
|  
| More later today as soon as more is known.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
 [129.97.128.64]  Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada