[ale] ethernet collisions/diag

[Matt Shade]

Don't know about the packet loss, but don't be concerned with the
collisions. Ethernet, by nature, causes collisions. I'd be more concerned if
you weren't seeing collisions. See:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/eth_collisions.html

Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at yahoo.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 13:33
Subject: [ale] ethernet collisions/diag


> Hi everyone,
>
> I am having a high rate of collisions on a remote Cobalt Raq3i that I host
a
> bunch of sites on.  Specifically this is what I am seeing (along w/ about
0 to
> 2% packet loss):
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:E0:01:D1:B3
>      inet addr:209.132.85.174  Bcast:209.132.85.175  Mask:255.255.255.252
>      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>      RX packets:44736945 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>      TX packets:49962335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>      collisions:2495529 txqueuelen:100
>      Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1100



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