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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!ortega From: ortega@netcom.com (John Ortega) Subject: very high collisions on FreeBSD machine Message-ID: <ortegaDDpIpG.8Mu@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:05:40 GMT Lines: 13 Sender: ortega@netcom.netcom.com On a medium duty network (most machines show low collision rates) we have a genuine AMI P90 motherboard with 32M ram, 512K cache, 1 NCR scsi, 1 adaptec 2940 scsi, and 1 PCI DEC nic. This machine works qite well, but for the high collision rates it gets. A current netstat -ia showed: ipkts ierrs opkts oers coll 883328843 280 34264945 0 10754790 Could this be software, are must it be hardware (I am not sure if software can have any thing to do with collisions) ? JO