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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet "heartbeat"
Message-ID: <1991May20.165730.24033@amd.com>
Date: 20 May 91 16:57:30 GMT
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oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov writes:
>I'm more concerned with detecting the flakey unit than the totally dead one.

Right on! Especially the flakey units that slow down the network for
everyone in a way that is almost impossible to pinpoint the culprit.

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