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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Erwane Breton <breton@erwane.net>
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On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:51:43PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Erwane Breton, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> On my FreeBSD box
> Network interface status:
> Ipkts     Ierrs  Ibytes    Opkts      Oerrs   Obytes      Coll
> 21852457  0      280187344 28530965   7       3906410421  8584

> Lot of collisions (for 10 days uptime)
> 
> If someone have idea or same problem, and solution :)

Well, I don't see the problem.

My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so deep in the
noise as to be practically zero.  What do you _think_ it should be?


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
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