[aclug-L] Re: packet collisions(not package..sorry)

[Maverick <mluvw47@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Jonathan. Yes, I am using a hub, and now I
tried to make the ethernet card run on half duplex, it
helps a lot.

Thanks. again.

Mav




--- Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Collisions have nothing, really, to do with your
> computer at all.  The
> "solution" is to get a switch instead of a hub.
> 
> A collition on an ethernet network just means that
> two computers tried to
> talk at the same time.  When that happens, they both
> wait a short time (less
> than a second) and retransmit the information.
> 
> If you have a large network, the number of
> collitions you get will go up...
> unless you get a switch which helps prevent
> colltions (and thus improves
> performance greatly)
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:47:51PM -0800, Maverick
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, all
> >    I found out my linux box, which has two network
> > interface cards got a lot of packet collisions.
> One
> > for internal LAN(eth1),and another for my cable
> > modem(eth0).
> > 
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> > 00:E0:29:54:EE:34
> >           inet addr:24.254.17.106 
> Bcast:24.254.17.255
> >  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500
> 
> > Metric:1
> >           RX packets:737349 errors:2 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 frame:21
> >           TX packets:133467 errors:0 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:3859 txqueuelen:100
> >           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x250
> > Memory:c8000-ca000
> > 
> > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> > 00:A0:24:91:CE:37
> >           inet addr:192.168.1.1 
> Bcast:192.168.1.255 
> > Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500
> 
> > Metric:1
> >           RX packets:151897 errors:7 dropped:0
> > overruns:10 frame:7
> >           TX packets:196801 errors:0 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 carrier:1
> >           collisions:8135 txqueuelen:100
> >           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
> > 
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:2669 errors:0 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:2669 errors:0 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > 
> > Does it mean my network card has problem? or the
> > network(my machine) too slow to handle the
> network,
> > the machine is just a 486 with 14M ram and 38M
> swap
> > space.
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Mav
> > 
> > 
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