From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 10 12:33: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F69A37B423 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 247513282; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:56:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117873281 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:56:45 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 11:56:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC settings In-Reply-To: <15368.968613173@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > A major preoccupation with network administrators these days seems to be > > monitoring and worrying about the number of collisions seen on Ethernet > > networks. There is a great deal of folklore and voodoo concerning what > > is an "acceptable" collision rate or collision percentage, and when is > > the network "broken" or on the verge of collapse. Except in the most > > extreme of circumstances (all of which are observable through other, > > better metrics), the number of collisions seen on a network in an > > uninteresting and misleading statistic. Good point, I was once in a room with about 200 computers hooked On one side of the room there was a bank of hubs and switches. In the space of a two minutes or so, there was easily a couple thousand collisions. It didn't really seem to be affecting anyone. On the other hand I believe it was also a Token-Ring Novell Network... :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message