David Woolley wrote: > Uwe Klein wrote: > >> The hardware does automatic resend on collision using an >> exponential+random backoff algorithm. >> > Properly functioning ethernet has minimum packet lengths that guarantee > that it one receiver sees a collision, all of them see the collision. > Therefore collisions should never result in duplicate packets at the > application layer. Good Morning David,
That's the theory ;-) But even with plain 10Base2/5/T some faults ( transceiver, cable ) could make that point moot. Today issues with firmware bugs can have significant impact. If you follow forex Linux Driver developement ( here: for it being public ) it is quite interesting to see what "nonintuitive" issues select vendor hardware produces. Imho it is good practice to not exclude basic media access from your list of possible errors. uwe _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
