Collision on NIC

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Fri May 30 15:16:04 PDT 2003


On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:26:56PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Erwane Breton, and lo! it spake thus:
> > > 
> > > Well, I don't see the problem.
> > > 
> > > My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so deep in the
> > > noise as to be practically zero.  What do you _think_ it should be?
> > > 
> > Even Mr. Inventor of the ethernet himself regrets calling them collisions because
> > that term has a bad ring people unfamiliar with the technological detail.
> > 
> > Pete
> 
> So there are no answers or solutions ?

Solution: Do nothing, because nothing is /wrong/.  There's nothing to
FIX.  Move along, nothing to see here.



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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"


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