I have seen this before when connecting Bay Switches (BlackBox) into our network. We had a packet loss rate of about 30%. When we moved to all Cisco we reduced our loss to about .8% (much better). I was not able to resolve why this happened except to hypothesize that the timing signals between would not synchronize and therefore packet loss occurred. My suggestion is to go with Cisco throughout. -----Original Message----- From: Ed [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: High collision rate on 2600 ethernet port I was curious if anyone else had seen this. We have a 2600 with 2 T1's going to other sights. The ethernet port connects it to a Bay 450 10/100 switch. Both switch and router ports are set to 10 / half, but we're still seeing a collision rate of about 19% This seems pretty high to me. Anyone have any thoughts? Here's the port info... show int e 0/0 Ethernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is AmdP2, address is 0030.1922.5340 (bia 0030.1922.5340) Internet address is 10.15.28.2/24 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000 Kbit, DLY 1000 usec, rely 255/255, load 34/255 Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set, keepalive not set ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00 Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:49:19 Queueing strategy: fifo Output queue 0/40, 0 drops; input queue 0/75, 0 drops 5 minute input rate 2044000 bits/sec, 356 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 1365000 bits/sec, 334 packets/sec 1091341 packets input, 848224944 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 16001 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort 0 input packets with dribble condition detected 965919 packets output, 314732326 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 183580 collisions, 0 interface resets 0 babbles, 0 late collision, 69923 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out Ed ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]