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title: "Explain Beaconing?"  
description: "Explain Beaconing?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2022-04-27  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97006/explain-beaconing  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "internet", "networking"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Explain Beaconing?

[Explain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86025/content-created-for-humans-not-for-bots-explain-this-statement) Beaconing?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- On token-passing [**networks**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49932/can-other-people-on-my-wifi-network-access-the-documents-on-the-hard-drive-attached-to-my-airport-extreme), **beaconing i**s a technique for monitoring the status of the token-passing process. To ensure that token passing is working effectively, beaconing is utilised in token ring and Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) networks.
- Every station on a token-passing network like FDDI is responsible for monitoring the token-passing process's status.
- When a station identifies a defect, it begins putting beacons on the ring. When a beacon is detected by the next station on the ring, it begins planting beacons on the ring, and the first station stops sending them.
- When a station identifies a defect, it begins putting beacons on the ring. When a beacon is detected by the next station on the ring, it begins planting beacons on the ring, and the first station stops sending them.

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