>For an explanation of what caRepeater is, see the The CA Repeater
>section of the CA Reference Manual
>
https://epics.anl.gov/base/R3-15/6-docs/CAref.html#Repeater
In short, you can mostly ignore the CARepeater.
It's only about channels that cannot connect because some IOC is offine, and the IOC has been offline for a long time, and now the IOC starts up. In that case, the CARepeater will help the client to connect quickly. Without the CARepeater,
the client might take a long time to connect to that newly started IOC.