From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 22 14: 4:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D273A37BC6E for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 14:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 63036 invoked by uid 1001); 22 May 2000 21:04:42 +0000 (GMT) To: Doug@gorean.org Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest? From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 13:55:24 -0700 (PDT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:04:42 +0200 Message-ID: <63034.959029482@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yeah, I miss the blinky lights. I went to the x-over cable because > the hub I bought originally was giving me non-stop collisions under > load. It should be noted that a lot of collisions is *expected* under load. If you saturate a half-duplex segment (using for instance ttcp), the sender would expect to see about 50% collisions (every other full size TCP packet from the sender will collide with an ACK from the receiver), and the receiver would expect to see 100% collisions. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message