Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SQE and strange behavior
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.203833.17627@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <408@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <19024@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 20:38:33 GMT

In article <19024@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@jupiter.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>SQE is an "enhancement" that was made to Ethernet when it was
>standardized as IEEE 802.3... [assorted unkind words about it]

On the whole I agree with Phil about the various little stupidities
perpetrated by 802.3.  The key point, which Phil wasn't too explicit
about, is that SQE is another aspect where the interface and the
transceiver *must* agree or there will be trouble.
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