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Date:      Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:00:05 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Alexander Maret <maret@axis.de>
Cc:        "'sthaug@nethelp.no'" <sthaug@nethelp.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xl driver for 3Com 
Message-ID:  <199906011500.IAA27210@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:09:59 +0200 
 Alexander Maret <maret@axis.de> wrote:

 > At first I tried my FreeBSD machine and I got about 800-900 collisions.
 > Second I booted on the same machine linux and I only got 4 (!) collisions.

It's also possible that Linux isn't counting the collisions properly.

 > I have no problem with thousands or millions of collissions, as long as
 > they don't crash my computer. I just want a running system.

Collisions don't cause your system to crash.  If this is happening,
something else is at fault (though that something else may be an
unrelated problem in the Ethernet driver).

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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