From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 17 19:19:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A0D37B65D for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14UJeI-0004w1-00; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:32:30 -0800 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:32:25 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Jeffrey Sewell Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Collisions each day In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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