Kingston Technology KNE8TP User Manual

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Design Features 
EtheRx User’s Guide - Rev. B00 
Kingston Technology Company 
Automatic Partitioning/Reconnection 
If any of the ports on the EtheRx hub experience excessive collisions, duration 
collisions, or faulty conditions, that particular port can be partitioned.  Once 
partitioned, the hub will continue to monitor that port.  If the error conditions 
have been corrected or a good data packet is received without a collision, the 
hub will automatically reconnect that port to the network. 
Link Test 
For UTP port connections, the EtheRx hub implements the link integrity test 
function as specified in the IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T standard.  The hub will 
transmit link test pulses to any UTP port after that port’s transmitter is inactive 
for a range of 8ms to 17ms.  These pulses are sent to confirm that a valid 
connection exists between each UTP port on the hub and its attached device.