My general rule of thumb on half-duplex non-switched ethernets is "don't worry about collisions unless a significant percentage (usually about 10%) of your packets result in collitions". In your case, 407/11040532 <<< 0.10, so I wouldn't get too alarmed... On 12/07/2001 22:37 +0100, Ivanovich wrote: >> A Divendres 07 Desembre 2001 20:45, Casey Carter va escriure: >> > That's one of the cool things about us Linux geeks. Show me a Windows >> > user who will put effort into tracing down the source of 1 error in 11 >> > million packet transmissions... >> > >> > Kenneth Stephen wrote: >> > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:05:EA:0B >> > > inet addr:X.y.54.140 Bcast:X.Y.54.191 Mask:255.255.255.192 >> > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> > > RX packets:9162662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> > > TX packets:11040532 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0 >> > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 >> > > Interrupt:15 Base address:0xa000 >> >> hehe true, we linux users are quite special >> >> 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 End of included message -- twalberg@mindspring.com
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