asteiner@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Albert Steiner) (04/11/91)
We have had one experience with putting a repeater on a network connected to a cisco router. The repeater was installed not because of distance, but because of the need to connect fibre, thickwire etc through an attached fanout box. A large number of errors occured on the interface. I was told that there was some kind of problem with the repeater adding trailers to the packets and introducing problems with CRC errors. The repeater has since been removed, and explanations are hard to get. We have another network connected again through a fanout box to a fibre then to a repeater to go to thinnet. Again we are getting a lot errors (but only in bursts). The network is clean most of the time, but occasionally we get 5 to 10 minutes of errors. This network is also running DECNET to CICNET and the errors become so severe that DECNET connections are lost. Any comments or suggestions on what to pursue. Are there any know problems of CISCOs with repeaters? ----------------------------------------- asteiner@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Albert Steiner, Academic Computing and Networking, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 708-491-4056