03-30-14 09:19 Paul Quinn wrote to Ed Vance about Blinking LEDs   
      
    PQ> @MSGID: <5337F484.12774.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    PQ> Hi! Ed,   
   Hi Paul and Mark,   
      
    PQ> 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.   
      
    PQ> That's okay if the router is a 'smart switch'.  It looks like   
    PQ> 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.   
      
    PQ> Back in the old (early) days of netbios networking, all   
    PQ> connected PCs had to run an election to see who was the best at   
    PQ> providing a 'master browser' (server-like) function.  There is   
    PQ> a setting in the Control Panel network tool to stop this from   
    PQ> happening.  It has to be done on each PC, BTW.  But _one_   
    PQ> should be set as the master!  Otherwise, whenever a new PC   
    PQ> joins the network there will be an election.  Also, there will   
    PQ> be a new election every nn minutes.  (I don't know the value   
    PQ> for 'nn', as it varies.)  If you've manually set a master then   
    PQ> there will not be any elections.   
      
   Thanks for ENLIGHTENING ME why the Router LEDs blink.   
      
   I looked a bit today in XP Help & Support about XP netbios to Master   
   on it.   
      
   I need to take some more time to read more about it in H&S and maybe   
   on Wiki and hope to see how to set XP MCE to Master and set Vista Home   
   Basic to be a netbios Slave (Child, whatever it is called).   
      
   Thanks again for sharing this old stuff (to You) with me.   
      
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