From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 11:46:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net (edtn016788.hs.telusplanet.net [161.184.241.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1595E37B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:46:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from moligny@kanotech.com) content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Network Collisions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:46:38 -0600 Message-ID: <76928F3E231DE4478876350F08358336044A90@kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Network Collisions Thread-Index: AcDi4YDhXWOrNdBOQaCBGur77NlLHwADen3g From: "Mike Oligny" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "C J Michaels" , "FreeBSD Questions" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I knew someone who actually knew something would show up eventually. :) Thanks, Kevin! -Mike -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Oberman [mailto:oberman@es.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:06 AM To: Mike Oligny Cc: C J Michaels; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Network Collisions=20 If you have collisions on the output of netstat -i, the interface is half duplex. Among other things, full-duplex operation MUST disable collision detection.=20 Typical duplex mis-match indicator is that one side of the connection has zero collisions but shows framing or other data errors and the other end shows many collisions and other errors; esp. late collisions. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message