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...

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