Was this by any chance one of those guys (and it usually is guys, sorry)
that puffs himself up and acts like he knows a whole bunch because he can
spout tekkie terms? ;-)
Heartbeat was an Ethernet II technology. It wasn't available on Ethernet I,
so there were some compatibility issues. IEEE supports it also and calls it
SQE. When you install an external transceiver you have to configure the SQE
test signal. It should be disabled if the transceiver is attached to a hub.
The purpose of the signal is to test the collision detection electronics of
the transceiver. It used to cause all sorts of troubleshooting issues and
would be the number one thing someone who learned Ethernet 15 years ago
would tell you to look into.
Pong was a very cool video game. Please don't knock it. ;-) Could he have
meant ping?? Or, maybe Spong? Spong monitors system performance. I don't
think it has anything to do with Cisco though. I guess it could monitor a
few things on a Cisco router maybe.
Priscilla
At 11:54 PM 8/16/01, Circusnuts wrote:
>I was interviewing ASP's the other day & just before the senior guy went
into
>a shpeal about atomic aggregates, he mentioned we might want to investigate
>running "Pong" or since we were using Cisco- "Heartbeat." I'm not sure if
>I'm
>researching the right areas, but I have found next to nothing on this stuff.
>Cisco uses the term heartbeat for polling GeoTel equipment & Pong has only
>revealed Atari's early successes with a relatively cheesy video game.
>
>Any takers...
>
>Thanks
>Phil
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