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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:16:27 -0500
From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
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To: Marcelo Leal <leal@myway.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: colisions!]
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You're wired fine.  You're seeing collisions because it's half duplex.
To avoid collisions you need a full duplex segment, otherwise the router
and etinc talking at the same time will lead to a collision.  This is
normal and is not cause for concern.

Marcelo Leal wrote:
> 
> i have the follow problem:
> i use etinc in one FreeBSD box (4.2). it works fine.
> this freebsd make bridge (one interface in switch), and another cross
> over to router. in the conection to router, there are one colision led,
> that are almost always up! i did put one rule for bridge only ip in rl0
> (switch interface). why there are colisions betwen etinc and router???
> the etinc interface are 10Mbps (half-duplex) and router too.
> the cross over is:
> etinc
> 1        2
> orange/white
> 3      6
> blue/white
> 
> router
> 1       2
> blue/white
> 3       6
> orange/white
> 
> thanks
> 
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