I remember reading that collistion on an ethernet network is quite normal
as long as it doen't exceed around 30%.  It also mentioned that you may
only get as little as 40% of capable bandwith with ethernet. 


On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Vidiot wrote:

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> >Hello!
> >I have two network cards in my box and on one of them
> >about 20 collisions a day !
> >What could be the problem?
> 
> Only 20?  What are you complaining about?  Here is mine:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:78:1E:F6:FD  
>           inet addr:208.171.49.43  Bcast:208.171.49.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:139134200 errors:0 dropped:171 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:208827627 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:36339630 txqueuelen:100 
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xbc00 
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> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:6D:11:1C:E4  
>           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:87663101 errors:16 dropped:0 overruns:16 frame:16
>           TX packets:92646241 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:3 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd800 
>  
> 
> eth0 is connected to the DSL line.  My box is a web and ftp server, hence
> the large amount of traffic over the past month.  eth1 is the connection
> to the two peecees that I have on my local net.
> 
> Now, if you've only sent 20 packets and get 20 collisions, then I'd be
> worried, but since you didn't list the RX/TX info, I can only assume that
> it is a lot more than 20 packets :-)
> 
> BTW, the collisions are 0 with eth1, because the computers are connected
> via a switch running at 100.
> 
> MB
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> >Thanks in advance!
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