Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:35:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Olivier Dony <odony@student.info.ucl.ac.be> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many collisions on network? Message-ID: <20030316203554.GC64222@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <025601c2ebf5$5abc25f0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> References: <005d01c2ebcb$82b343b0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> <20030316152335.GA1434@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <002201c2ebd3$92d0a7d0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> <3E74B8BC.4030009@potentialtech.com> <025601c2ebf5$5abc25f0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net>
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In the last episode (Mar 16), Olivier Dony said: > o On the server I was talking about earlier, here is an excerpt of > netstat while switching from half to full-duplex and back : > > input (Total) output > packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls > 900 0 141953 1261 0 1351094 633 > -> going full-duplex... here I guess > 462 12 61552 546 0 649187 0 > -> back to half-duplex with autoselect .. looks like here > 815 0 150286 1128 0 1841082 749 > > The input errors and other numbers were consistent during the few > minutes of testing in all 3 cases, but I cut it to a few lines for > the sake of the mailing-list. Is this increase in input errors and > drop in bytes throughput a problem? I guess the input errors are not > good, when we can see that there are Input errors probably means that whatever you're plugged into does not support full-duplex (i.e. it's a hub), which is why autoselect selected half-duplex. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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