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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!netaxs.com!socko.cdnow.com!heller From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3C590: no collisions? Date: 12 Jun 1997 20:51:37 GMT Organization: CDnow - The World's Largest Online Music Store http://cdnow.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5npngp$2s1@netaxs.com> References: <33A027F2.41C67EA6@we.lc.ehu.es> Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com NNTP-Posting-Host: socko.cdnow.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42838 Jose M. Alcaide (jose@we.lc.ehu.es) wrote: : Curiously, "netstat -i" _always_ shows 0 collisions on the vx0 : ethernet interface (3COM 590, FreeBSD 2.2.1). However, other hosts : attached to the same (saturated) segment have about 5% collision rate. : I suspect that the vx driver does not increment the collision : counter. A colleague has another FreeBSD box with a 3C900 (also : vx driver), and it also shows 0 collisions. Isn't surprising? VX on 2.1.5: Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll vx0 1500 <Link>00.a0.24.de.dc.83 128333705 33 120342519 922 1853 : --JM : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Jose M. Alcaide | E-mail: <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> : Universidad del Pais Vasco | WWW: : Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose : Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Phone: +34-4-4647700 x2624 : 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 : ------------------------------------------------------------------------