Brian Henning wrote: > > Were there no LEDs at all? oh, now that you mention it, they're with the logos and glitz - on the front - rather than where all the action is - the wires and antennas - at the back. I was trying to block out the glitz. It hadn't occured to me that the lights on the front indicated anything useful. > A growing (?) trend I've seen is to merge the > Link and Activity indicators into one.. Dark = no link; Lit = link good, no > activity; Blinking = activity (implying link).
hmm, I guess I'm a two light kinda guy. Now that I look I see that the order of the lights is left-to-right inverted - the left light indicates the state of the port on the right etc. I think I'd seen this before and decided to figure out later why the lights didn't do anything sensible. Victor Snesarev wrote: > That feature is called Auto-MDI/MDI-X. MDI stands for Media Dependent Interface > and is an IEEE 802.3 standards term. In this case the MDI is an 8-pin RJ45 with > 2 twisted pairs of wire. The X stands for crossover (Xover). So, Auto-MDIX = > Automatic twisted pair crossover. Thanks for the correct nomenclature. Joe -- Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
