[tulip] LNE100TX rev. 5.0

... goemon@anime.net
Thu Dec 13 18:01:01 2001


On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Jacob Schroeder wrote:
> On a network going through a properly sized hub shouldn't network 
> errors be few?

it depends on the speed of the network and how much traffic you are 
pushing.

> And Full Duplex would cause more collisions?

no it would cause zero collisions.

> I've got 5 sometimes 6 computers on an 8 port hub, with the only 
> traffice being sharing a dialup and a fileserver. I can get roughly 
> 6,000 errors just doing a 4 minute ssh connection with another computer 
> on the lan, and those two computers being the only traffic going through 
> the hub

collisions are normal on half duplex, errors are not. your error counter 
should be 0.

-Dan
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