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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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