operator@watmath.waterloo.edu (Operators) (05/16/91)
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