> From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
> Date: 2000-04-14 14:32:15 -0700
> To: port-amiga@netbsd.org, tech-net@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: "lost carrier" msg w/ ifconfig (was: X display damaged 
> afterifconfig)
> In-reply-to: <20000414232156.A441@maus.local.net>; from Ingolf Koch on 
> Fri,Apr 14, 2000 at 11:21:56PM +0200
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> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:21:56PM +0200, Ingolf Koch wrote:
> >
> > BTW, is there really something like a carrier for 10base2
> > (i.e. the _unused_ interface of the card)?
>
> ISTR there is a heartbeat signal on Good Old Ethernet.

IIRC, there is a heartbeat for "local" communication to the  
tranceiver at the end of a "dongle", but that's it.  For 10Base2, you  
have no indication of the presence of a network (beyond the  
indication of a really high number of errors :-]) (if you're not  
terminated).

Regards,

Justin

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