dc still reporting collisions

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:14:36PM -0800, Jos Backus wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 04:52:14PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > The dc(4) driver is still reporting collisions on 100 Mbit full-duplex
> > links:
> [snip]
> > > netstat -i
> > Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> > dc0    1500 <Link#1>      00:00:e8:89:b9:66    26463     0    26737 13253 225301
> 
> Fwiw, I'm seeing the same with tx(4):
> 
> lizzy:~% ifconfig tx0
> tx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
>         inet 10.0.0.10 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.0.0.10
>         ether 00:e0:29:09:e4:1a
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
>         status: active
> lizzy:~% netstat -i
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> tx0    1500 <Link#1>      00:e0:29:09:e4:1a   154423     1   118093     0   253
> tx0    1500 10/24         lizzy               159162     -   122841     -     -
> tx0    1500 10.0.0.10/32  lizzy-proxy             28     -       28     -     -
> lo0   16384 <Link#2>                            5347     0     5347     0     0
> lo0   16384 your-net      localhost              442     -      442     -     -
> lizzy:~% 
> 
> It's gotten so bad that I can no longer transfer files from a Windows system
> to this FreeBSD system (both are on the same 10BaseT hub). I only rarely used
> to see collisions before, and filetransfers have always worked just fine. Last
> time I know for sure this worked was October 17th.

These probably are actual collisions though.  The OP's point is that collisions
are supposed to be impossible on a full duplex link, whereas in your situation
they aren't.

Ceri
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