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Fillwords IDLE vs ARBff (one last time)

I\’ve written about fillwords a lot (see here, here, and here) but I didn\’t show you much about the different symptoms an incorrect fillword setting may incur. As you\’ve seen fillwords are a very nifty way of maintaining bit and word-sync on a serial transmission link when no actual frames are sent. Furthermore they also

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Fill Words. What are those, what do they do and why are they needed

There has been quite some confusion around the use of fill words with the adoption of the 8G fibre-channel standard. Some admins have reported that they have problems connecting devices on this speed as well as numerous headaches in long-distance replication especially when DWDM/CWDM equipment is involved.An ordered set is a transmission word used to

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