Maybe "pong" is a new kind of ping reply. kinda like the way the dot
used to bounce back frm the other side of the screen. We have some
"heartbeat" situations with clusters.... ;-)
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
>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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