From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 12:36: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C28B37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30C443FA3 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h2GKZscK050972; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:35:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:35:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Olivier Dony Cc: Bill Moran , Simon Barner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many collisions on network? Message-ID: <20030316203554.GC64222@dan.emsphone.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <025601c2ebf5$5abc25f0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 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