Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:25:22 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: stuyman@confusion.net Cc: mike@mikesweb.com, wizard@sybaweb.co.za, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC settings Message-ID: <15565.968613922@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:20:42 -0400" References: <39BBDF09.DD4FF386@confusion.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> I'd say you should really be looking at latency across the network, in > terms of things like ping, etc. Agreed. This is one possible performance metric. > A high number of collisions may be a sign that the latency has gone up, Agreed, as long as you include the "may". > as a result of too many hosts on the > same network, in which case some sort of segmentation (ie with switches) > can be useful. Collisions alone, however, aren't much of anything of > note...unless every person has their own full-duplex port on a switch > you will never be able to get rid of them, nor should you want to. Exactly. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?15565.968613922>