Hi! Ed,   
      
   In a message to All you wrote:   
      
    EV> Would anyone know why I see the LED for one port on a Linksys BEFSX41   
    EV> CAT-5 wired router and another port on the router blinking but the   
    EV> WAN port LED isn't blinking.   
      
   That's okay if the router is a 'smart switch'.  It looks like LAN-only   
   traffic, if they're the only LEDs lighting up.   
      
    EV> If I have had been using a XP pc for hours and decided to turn on   
    EV> another pc, it looks like the second one is comparing notes with   
    EV> the first pc that was already running when the second pc was turned   
    EV> on.   
      
   Back in the old (early) days of netbios networking, all connected PCs had to   
   run an election to see who was the best at providing a 'master browser'   
   (server-like) function.  There is a setting in the Control Panel network tool   
   to stop this from happening.  It has to be done on each PC, BTW.  But _one_   
   should be set as the master!  Otherwise, whenever a new PC joins the network   
   there will be an election.  Also, there will be a new election every nn   
   minutes.  (I don't know the value for 'nn', as it varies.)  If you've manually   
   set a master then there will not be any elections.   
      
    EV> I can't figure out why I see this happening, can somebody ENLIGHTEN   
    EV> me why I see these two LEDs blinking at each other?   Thanks!   
      
   There could be some file/printer sharing discussions going on between the   
   (two) connected PCs... maybe there's a whole gaggle of networking protocols   
   being negotiated.  Hence, the WAN port isn't involved.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... A procrastinator's work is never done.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
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