Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:56:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC settings Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009091153420.11830-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <15368.968613173@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> > A major preoccupation with network administrators these days seems to be > > monitoring and worrying about the number of collisions seen on Ethernet > > networks. There is a great deal of folklore and voodoo concerning what > > is an "acceptable" collision rate or collision percentage, and when is > > the network "broken" or on the verge of collapse. Except in the most > > extreme of circumstances (all of which are observable through other, > > better metrics), the number of collisions seen on a network in an > > uninteresting and misleading statistic. Good point, I was once in a room with about 200 computers hooked On one side of the room there was a bank of hubs and switches. In the space of a two minutes or so, there was easily a couple thousand collisions. It didn't really seem to be affecting anyone. On the other hand I believe it was also a Token-Ring Novell Network... :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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