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Date:      Fri, 30 May 2003 17:15:59 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Erwane Breton <breton@erwane.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Collision on NIC
Message-ID:  <20030530221559.GL61246@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030530182656.08046610.breton@erwane.net>
References:  <20030529155143.2c39326e.breton@erwane.net> <20030529144639.GI61246@over-yonder.net> <004b01c325f6$2c5cfd20$812a40c1@PETEX31> <20030530182656.08046610.breton@erwane.net>

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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:26:56PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Erwane Breton, and lo! it spake thus:
> > > 
> > > 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
> 
> So there are no answers or solutions ?

Solution: Do nothing, because nothing is /wrong/.  There's nothing to
FIX.  Move along, nothing to see here.



-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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