Collisions occur when two sides of a half-duplex connection transmit at the same time. The packets 'collide' and you wind up with two toasted packets. Either the cable modem or the ISA card (quite possibly both) can only use half-duplex. 407 is quite reasonable for that many packets. Your other cards are probably on a switch (which are full duplex and, thus, do not have collisions). -- Brian On Friday 07 December 2001 04:37 pm, Ivanovich wrote: > i looked at my ifconfig too and i found this: > RX packets:5032199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:9 > TX packets:1169103 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8 > collisions:407 txqueuelen:100 > > 4 errors in 1 million TXs and 407 collisions... this is a ISA card > connected to a cablemodem > > is this normal? arent this a lot of collisions? (even if i dont know > what a collision is exactly i see all my other cards have zero > collisions...) - - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
