A local area network having a telephone line medium in a home network environment includes physical layer transceivers having transmit and receive state machines enabling each network station to determine a link status on the telephone line medium. The transmit state machine is configured for transmitting...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6292467?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6292467 - Apparatus and method of determining a link status between network stations connected to a telephone line medium
Apparatus and method of determining a link status between network stations ...