Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 17:31:07 +0200 From: Erik de Zeeuw <erik@univ-lehavre.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bridging : "collision at xxx" exact meaning ? Message-ID: <37569FBB.86835FF@univ-lehavre.fr>
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Hi again to freebsd-questions, This is, I hope, my last message about bridging with FreeBSD :) I just compile a new kernel, using 3.2-RELEASE downloaded from sunsite.org.uk, with BRIDGE & DUMMYNET & IPFIREWALL enabled, default rule to accept. The machine has two Intel Pro 10/100 adapters, using driver fxp (fxp0,fxp1). The bridge seems to work fine now. Everything's ok, except for the HUGE number of messages I have on console. These are : collision at xxx where "xxx" is a number, 99% of the time simply 0. I looked around at the code, and these are coming from bridge.c. After studying the code, it turns out to me that the bridge get a packet for wich it stored an ethernet adress, but the ethernet adress in the packet is different from the one stored. As I'm not a code guru, that's what I understand. May be some of you truely understand what is going on, and could just give me a note about it. My main concern is if these messages are really important, ie the packets that caused the collision is dropped, and thus may cause connection problems through the bridge; or if this is a side effect, due to a high load or whatever. The network I'm on is pretty loaded, and not well organized, but I feel like I should ask here what is exactly going on, if someone knows and is kind enough to explain that to me. Anyway, I wish to thank all the peoples who helped me setting up that damn'bridge stuff :) And I also wish to thank every people that makes FreeBSD and keep this mailing list alive. Thanks :) Erik de Zeeuw, Universite du Havre. erik@univ-lehavre.fr erik.dezeeuw@wanadoo.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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