[Info-vax] terminal servers etc

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In article <kcambr$i8d$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
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>> T is TCPIP, L is LAT, TL is both, M is both and more?  Since a hub or
>> repeater is essentially a dumb device, why can't it handle all protocols
>> as long as the wiring is correct?
>
>I doubt the lettering stands for anything like that. A repeater repeats 
>ethernet frames. Not any specific protocol.

I'd wager that the T referred to 10baseT since these devices had RJ45s 
for 10baseT connection.  There was also the DECrepeater90FL which has
fiber connections (hence FL).

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