[12879] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Red Light does not necessarily indicate a collision
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron)
Sat Jan 16 09:12:51 1993
To: jjmorey@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: kim@Athena.MIT.EDU, op@Athena.MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU
From: dbaron@MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 15 Jan 93 09:06:48 -0500.
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 09:12:43 EST
Actually, on some XCVRs, the light does mean collision and doesn't
light for "heartbeat". But, as Jeff says, collisions aren't bad and
are to be expected on a large and busy Ethernet.
Dennis
