On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> since i just picked up a bunch of older AUI only (or AUI+10Base-2) DEC
> boxes, i figured that instead of buying a bazillion transceivers i should
> grab these two cheap boxes off of ebay:
> 
> Cabletron Systems MT-800 Multiport Transceiver Unit (MAU)
> 
> one "uplink" AUI port and 8 "regular" ports.  got two of the bastards.

Saves you 14 trancievers on 16 DECstations.

> the question are this:
> 
> what is SQE?
> should i enable it?
> what is LBK?
> should i enable that as well?
> 
> that's all i need to know.  oh, also, the transceiver i got (just so happens
> it's also a Cabletron) has the SQE sqitch on it as well.  should i enable it
> here as well?
> 
> hmm, here;s a better idea, can somebody explain what SQE and LBK are?  if i
> know, then i'm much better off in the long run.

That's done very well by others and you can see it on the Cabletron
easily: when an orange led simultaniously lits with a green one, then the
SQE switch of the transceiver on the Cabletron is set wrong.

Regards,
Richard