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From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Ethernet repeater loosing packets
Message-ID: <657@sater.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 18 Feb 88 16:49:29 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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We have a collection of thin Ethernet segments connected by
BICC Isolan Multiport repeaters. Since today we have a SUN 3/60
which seems to be able to do NFS and ND transfers with 6 packets back to back
on the Ethernet.

We have a suspicion that our repeaters can't cope with this.
Looking at the various segments with etherfind, an ethernet monitoring
program supplied by Sun, we saw packets on the originating segment,
that didn't arrive on the destination segment.

Does anybody have any experience with these repeaters, or others
that suggest that we might be correct in our suspicion?

				Hans van Staveren