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Communication Protocols — question 8 of 10

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A CAN node starts throwing transmit errors intermittently, and eventually its transmit error counter climbs past 255, pushing it into the bus-off state -- it stops transmitting entirely and drops off the network, while every other node keeps communicating normally. Walk me through what has to be physically happening on this node's transmissions to drive its error counter that high, and what has to happen afterward for the node to rejoin the bus.

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