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Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

936.0. "FOIRL and 10BASEFL on DECrepeater 90F*" by KERNEL::EVANSN () Tue Apr 26 1994 15:35

Just a quick question, I hope.

I have seen from a previous entry that the DECrepeater 90FA will automatically 
switch between 10BASEFL and FOIRL and therefore ensure that the 90FA will 
interoperate with a DECrepeater 200/RC.

The question is given that the FL and FS have more fibre ports, will they do 
the same ?

Regards

Neal Evans
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936.110BaseFL and FOIRL compatibilityLEVERS::PAGLIARORich Pagliaro, Hub Products GroupTue Apr 26 1994 22:4620
>>    ...the DECrepeater 90FA will automatically switch between 10BASEFL and    
>>    FOIRL

    For clarity's sake, the DECrepeater 90FA does not actually "switch"
    between 10BASEFL and FOIRL. Rather, its implementation of 10BASEFL is
    backward compatible with the FOIRL standard (this is according to the
    engineer who designed the DECrepeater 90FA).

>>  The question is given that the FL and FS have more fibre ports, will
>>  they do the same ?

    The DECrepeater 90FL, DECrepeater 90FS, and DECrepeater 900FP (as well
    as the DECrepeater 90FA) will all interoperate with a DECrepeater
    200/RC because the 90(0) series repeaters are all backward compatible
    with the FOIRL standard.
    
    Regards,
    
    Rich

936.2KERNEL::EVANSNWed Apr 27 1994 12:073
Thanks for the clarification.

Neal