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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!unix!updike!ric
- From: ric@updike..sri.com (Richard Steinberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Multiport repeaters and collision propagation
- Message-ID: <ric.724092787@updike>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 16:53:07 GMT
- Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM
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- I am working with a hardware networking engineer who is helping
- me figure out why packets appear to be dropped when they are
- transmitted between a SUN fileserver in one building and a client
- SUN in another. Between the buildings are a 2-port Xerox repeater,
- a Codenoll multiport fiber optic star and a TCL multiport repeater.
- Both Suns are connected to Thicknet on ports of a multiport
- transceiver.
-
- He claims that it is not uncommon for multiport repeaters
- and even transceivers to NOT propagate collision signals to
- nodes on the repeater where the collision did not occur. In other
- words, he says that some multiport devices isolate collision signals
- to the branch where they occur. Can anyone confirm such behavior?
- If this is indeed happening, can it not cause problems if a computer
- a node or more away is unaware of a lost packet(s) it transmitted. A
- timeout would need to occur and a retransmission request sent?
-
- The symptoms we have seen are very long file transfer times
- (via NFS) and slow interactive response on X terminals on machines
- in a different building from the fileserver (and X client machine).
-
- Any comments, suggestions or recommendations would be
- appreciated. Thank you.
-
- regards,
-
- ric steinberger
- ric@updike.sri.com
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