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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3C590: no collisions?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:57:37 +0200
Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica
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HAMADA Naoki wrote:

> 
> 3COM's Etherlink III and later cards are so intelligent that they deal
> with collisions automatically without reporting to the host. Instead
> they have statistic registers, which are ignored by the drivers for
> now.
> 

Thanks for your explanation. I read the vx man page, but it does
not tell anything about that.

--JM