Xref: utzoo alt.sys.sun:4170 comp.dcom.lans:8348 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!balrog!gdelong From: gdelong@ctron.com (Gary Delong) Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Cabletron Repeater Problems Message-ID: <1638@balrog.ctron.com> Date: 10 Jun 91 16:03:53 GMT References: <1991Jun7.200603.9378@ns.network.com> Sender: news@balrog.ctron.com Reply-To: gdelong@ctron.com (Gary Delong) Followup-To: alt.sys.sun Organization: Cabletron Systems INc. Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: olympus In article <1991Jun7.200603.9378@ns.network.com> sjs@eros.network.com (Steve Senum) writes: >Our site has a number of Cabletron MMAC-8s, IRMs (and IRM2s), and THIN-MIMs. >We also have a Auxpex NS/5000 server, and have had a *lot* of problems with >the Cabletron repeaters dropping packets. We noticed this problem last >October, and have been trying to get a fix for the problem since then. >We are getting closer to a solution, but I can't believe how really awful >Cabletron's tech support department is. All they seem capable of doing >is telling us their equipment can't be the problem (it is). We have also >seen this problem with Cabletron FR3000 fiber repeaters, and their 8 port >thinwire repeaters. If you have a fast machine (the Auspex NS/5000 is not >the only machine that can send frames with minimum spacing), and Cabletron >equipment, you are likey to have this problem. >I would be interested to hear from other sites that have seen a problem >like this with Cabletron equipment. >Steve Senum, sjs@network.com Subject: Re: Cabletron Repeater Problems To: Steve Senum Cc: jfd@octelb.octel.com (John F. Detke) rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) alt.sys.sun,comp.dcom.lans Mailed/Posted for: Graig R. Benson Today at 1:00 PM your time Bob Levine, Cabletron's President, is meeting with your company to resolve all problems. His trip is just to visit Network Systems Corp. which is 3.5 hours by plane, one-way. We are committed to supporting you. I know you have had problems, and I don't know whether it is our products or not; I do know that we will fix the problems regardless of whose product or products is causing it. I am very sorry for what ever we have done to make your job a more difficult one, and I will make sure we use your experience to help improve our company. Craig R. Benson Chairman/COO Cabletrons Systems, Inc.