It depends on what type of collisions, and whether or not your device
can report the various cases (or finding out what they are called).
Collisions aren't that horrible. They get requeued for transmission.
Deferred transmits occur when a packet is read to be transmitted but
the media is 'busy'.
Excessive collisions are 8 or 16 successive collisions on the same
packet (depending on who is reporting them).
Deferred transmits can lead to input buffer shorage and consequently
input drops.
The latter case is a more true metric of media congestion.
Jeff Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
_________________________________
FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
