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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!news.rediris.es!lgdx06.lg.ehu.es!not-for-mail From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3C590: no collisions? [REPOST] Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:38:20 +0200 Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica Lines: 30 Message-ID: <33A1696C.2ACA@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <33A027F2.41C67EA6@we.lc.ehu.es> <5npngp$2s1@netaxs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cygnus-x1.we.lc.ehu.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42983 [ REPOST IN RAW TEXT FORMAT ] A. Karl Heller wrote: > > 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 Perhaps the 2.2.1's vx is broken? Here is my "netstat -i" ouput: Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll vx0 1500 <Link> 00.60.97.90.3e.db 4022741 31 221483 0 0 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------