Timeline for Is Ethernet port blinking really useful?
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| Feb 8, 2019 at 13:52 | comment | added | jrh | @nigel222 from my industry I'd like to add, Ethernet can be stuck inside of moving machinery without the proper high flex cabling, soaked with hazardous chemicals without the proper jacket, have its jacket rubbed off by improperly designed machinery, be partially sheared off when it was rammed into something accidentally, have its X-Code sockets be cut open by electricians forcibly pushing connectors together, flaky cards can be toasted by PoE voltage being shorted to communication pins, networks can be accidentally limited to the wrong speed by using a 4 pin cable in the middle, etc... | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 22:48 | comment | added | Mark | As an example, I followed the blinking lights to trace a denial-of-service attack through an office, and found a computer with an unsecured NTP server. | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 22:05 | comment | added | Zac67♦ | @mckenzm For Ethernet? I hope not. 10BASE2 sucked big time. | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 22:03 | comment | added | mckenzm | Nobody using CB Radio era coax anymore ? | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 20:12 | comment | added | Zac67♦ | @nigel222 Ethernet twisted pair cabling can be up to 100 m. Ethernet fiber cabling can be up to 100 km. | |
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| Feb 7, 2019 at 16:41 | comment | added | nigel222 | Ethernet wiring can be up to 100m, buried in the structure of a building, gnawed by rats, dribbled with sewage leaks, melted by plumbers, etc. Unreliability goes with the territory! At my workplace many of the computers are in a clean area. It takes about 5 minutes struggling into a clean-room suit before you are allowed in there, another 5 minutes disrobing to come out. If you form the opinion that the network might be faulty, it's incredibly useful to be able to check if there's a link and if there's any data passing on it, without leaving that area! | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 12:41 | vote | accept | Stanowczo | ||
| Feb 7, 2019 at 12:14 | history | edited | Zac67♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2019 at 12:12 | comment | added | Zac67♦ | It'd be useful for other interfaces as well, but due to them being less complex it's not as important. | |
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| Feb 7, 2019 at 11:35 | comment | added | Stanowczo | I bet they can, but still there are no lights for other data-transferring interfaces like usb, hdmi, thunderbolt or whatever. Why would this be useful only for ethernet? | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 11:32 | history | answered | Zac67♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |