RE: Link Status thoughts
Pat,
In X-PCS/XGXS, I have seen the following fault indicator candidates:
(please correnct me If I am listing wrong names)
(1) send N fault indicators and N /A/K/R/ Idles alternately (Shimon, Rich)
(2) replace /A/ with the fault indicator (Pat)
(3) put the fault indicator in after each /A/ (Pat, Shimon)
(4) send a fault indicator once every N /A/K/R/ Idles (Rich, Osamu)
You can find Rich's 10GFC proposal in
ftp://ftp.t11.org/t11/pub/fc/10gfc/00-488v0.pdf
Best Regards,
Osamu
At 18:26 00/11/02 -0700, pat_thaler@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have not been following Fibre Channel so I don't know the details of your
> proposal that was made there. There appear to me to be two choices to insert
> a fault indication with random /A/ spacing. Either replace the /A/ with the
> fault indication or put the fault indication in after the /A/. I slightly
> prefer the latter because then the sync process only has to align on /A/
> and it can align in the presence of the fault indication.
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