From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 14:33:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD2437B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from naboo.blacktrap.net (212.68.218.22.brutele.be [212.68.218.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A6543F85 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from odony@student.info.ucl.ac.be) Received: from arkania (arkania [192.168.2.21]) by naboo.blacktrap.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id h2GMaSLc005699; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 23:36:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from odony@student.info.ucl.ac.be) Message-ID: <02d101c2ec0c$0ddf0ec0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> Reply-To: "Olivier Dony" From: "Olivier Dony" To: "Bill Moran" Cc: "Dan Nelson" , "Simon Barner" , References: <005d01c2ebcb$82b343b0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> <20030316152335.GA1434@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <002201c2ebd3$92d0a7d0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> <3E74B8BC.4030009@potentialtech.com> <025601c2ebf5$5abc25f0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> <20030316203554.GC64222@dan.emsphone.com> <3E74E123.1080504@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: Too many collisions on network? Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 23:33:04 +0100 Organization: UCL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 16 March, 2003 21:40, Bill Moran wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > Input errors probably means that whatever you're plugged into does not > > support full-duplex (i.e. it's a hub), which is why autoselect selected > > half-duplex. > > You know, now that he brings this up, I tend to agree. > It's possible that the hub you're plugging into is saturated: that will > result in high collision rates and poor performance. You won't get > anything better because that's the best the hub can do. > If I'm right on this guess, you need to take it up with your ISP, as it's > something they need to address. Ok I left this one in autoselect for now, and will contact my ISP tomorrow, and try and ask them to find solution for this high collision number problem... Thanks a lot everybody who answered :) Olivier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message