Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:32:25 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Jeffrey Sewell <jefffbsd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Collisions each day Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10102171830160.9009-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <F222mGBNUwkGGwYCiLD00002e49@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Jeffrey Sewell wrote: > Network interface status: > Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs > Coll > fxp0 1500 161.71.25.12/ raven 50174 0 23006 0 > 14688 > > Should I be alarmed because of : 50174/23006 sent and received and having > 14688 collisions. It does seem to be rather high. > What would cause this? Bad cable from my box to the hub? Possibly. Most likely a bad hub, or too many hubs in the collision domain. I have a nice hub here that causes 100% collisions if I hook it anywhere in the LAN. > I have another box that has no collisions with like 123,000,000 packets > sent... The only way that is possible is if you are using a switch, not a hub. Or, as I recall some ethernet drivers failed to count collisions properly. > Thanks for the help fellas. > Jeff. > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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