Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: DEC H4001 transceiver heartbeat fix... Message-ID: <15663@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 7 Nov 90 08:34:41 GMT Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Distribution: usa Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 11 Does anybody know how to modify the traditional DEC ethernet transceivers to disable the heartbeat? Someone mentioned one only need snip a wire, the question being exactly which... I've got piles of DEC transceivers, but have been buying/installing Cabletron units for thin-wire converters - this seems wastefull... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)