In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writes:
>The paper that someone mentioned earlier in this thread had some >statistics on various classes of errors. In a nutshell, they put >packet sniffers on 4 different networks, and collected traffic. For >each back packet (where the checksum and ethernet CRC differed), they >then looked for retransmissions of the same data, and tried to characterize >the different failure modes they observed. > >It's very interesting reading. Absolutely. We have a pretty big FreeBSD concentration at one of my customers and I was actually considering running their collector (if I can get my hands on it) just to see what the error rate is... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message