Re: Acceptable collision percentage?

[brian davison <bdavison proaxis com>]

I don't remember if you said what your network cards are... Are they
configured full duplex to the switch from at least the servers?   Full
duplex should eliminate the collisions as long as the switch can handle the
traffic.
brian   :}  ;->  


At 03:57 AM 4/9/99 +0800, someone answering you wrote:   and I <clipped most
of it.>

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>> When I checked the statistics this morning, they looked like this:
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>> RX packets:126904548 errors:26 dropped:0 overruns:4 frame:61
>> TX packets:122900557 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:394 carrier:0
>> collisions:10704957 
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>> Which works out to roughly a 4.28% collision rate.  I'm wondering if this
>> is too high.  One thing that's probably inflating the collision rate is
>> ghost - we periodically use it to update the client PC's software and I
>> suspect it creates some collisions when restoring an image, especially when
>> I'm restoring multiple machines at once.
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>> I'm wondering if I should consider adding a 2nd network card to the server
>> and directing squid traffic to one interface and Samba & everything else to
>> the other.
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>How seriously do you regard a 4% loss of capacity?
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