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Date:      Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:25:22 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        stuyman@confusion.net
Cc:        mike@mikesweb.com, wizard@sybaweb.co.za, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIC settings
Message-ID:  <15565.968613922@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:20:42 -0400"
References:  <39BBDF09.DD4FF386@confusion.net>

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> I'd say you should really be looking at latency across the network, in
> terms of things like ping, etc.

Agreed. This is one possible performance metric.

> A high number of collisions may be a sign that the latency has gone up,

Agreed, as long as you include the "may".

> as a result of too many hosts on the
> same network, in which case some sort of segmentation (ie with switches)
> can be useful.  Collisions alone, however, aren't much of anything of
> note...unless every person has their own full-duplex port on a switch
> you will never be able to get rid of them, nor should you want to.

Exactly.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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