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From: richa@gnarly.WV.TEK.COM (Rich Ahrendt)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cabletron Repeater Problems
Keywords: Cabletron ... dropped packets, Ethernet collision statistics bogus
Message-ID: <11102@orca.wv.tek.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 15:43:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.200603.9378@ns.network.com> <1991Jun20.075328.6540@qualcomm.com> <1991Jun20.203445.12130@unhd.unh.edu>
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Reply-To: richa@gnarly.WV.TEK.COM (Rich Ahrendt)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
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I have been following the last few articles about problems with Cabletron
repeaters.  We over the years have only a few Cabletron products but are
now looking at the 10baseT Cabletron product. We have used TCL and
over the last five years out of 150+ MPU's only had 1 failure.  When new
systems have been added to the net we have not had to upgrade any TCL
products due to their strict adhearance to spec.'s   We are now having to
qualify the networks for compute servers that claim extreamly fast network
throughput.

Has anyone else had good or bad experiences with these repeaters.  The 
problem with dropped packets is a concern for us here at Tektronix as the 
state of the art in computer systems gets faster and more intense.  The 
issues with increased utilization is enough of a problem without having the 
MPU's and repeaters adding potential retries on the nets.


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