Sounds like someone had a software loopback somewhere where
there should have been a software x-connect.
How you'd do this with wiring:
you have transmit wired to receive on the "far-end" and also
wired to the "near-end" receive. The "near-end" transmit has electrons
falling out of the end of it's cable though.
- jared
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:15:02AM -0800, Jim Warner wrote:
> jlewis said:
>
> > I've never seen this happen,... so the circuit is simultaneously
> > up and looped towards the customer.
>
> I once had a video conferencing point to point T1 where the far
> side saw themselves (i.e. looped) but the near side saw the far
> side. I told the trouble desk that the line was half looped and
> they indicated that this was something they could straighten out
> in software. And they did.
>
> I don't think I would know how to do this with a "conventional"
> DSX-1 jack panel. But with computers, you can do anything.
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