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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:14:25 -0800 (PST)
You do realize that there is other broadcast traffic such as arp
requests/replies, DHCP requests, and communication to/from shaw/rogers
itself, right?
'tcpdump' is a wonderful tool sometimes.
You can safely ignore it, its part of the normal ethernet traffic that
exists out there on your subnet.
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I hate the internet.
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Robert Adams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Shaw replaced my old Lancity modem with a new Terayon today. It seems to
> work well, and is at least as fast as the Lancity, I think.
>
> One thing I find confusing. The Terayon has four leds on the front:
> Online (which is on solid), Message (off), Receive (which flashes
> regularly at about 1 second intervals when there is no activity, and is on
> solid when I'm receiving data), and Send (which is only on when I'm
> sending data).
>
> Why is the Receive light flashing regularly like that? It happens even if
> the PC attached to the modem (my firewall) is powered down. It doesn't
> seem to be affecting the performance of the modem, but I can't account for
> it at all.
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