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Date:      Thu, 29 May 2003 18:18:26 +0300
From:      "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, "Erwane Breton" <breton@erwane.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Collision on NIC
Message-ID:  <004b01c325f6$2c5cfd20$812a40c1@PETEX31>
References:  <20030529155143.2c39326e.breton@erwane.net> <20030529144639.GI61246@over-yonder.net>

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> 
> 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?
> 
Even Mr. Inventor of the ethernet himself regrets calling them collisions because
that term has a bad ring people unfamiliar with the technological detail.

Pete



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