>
> } Defered packets occur when the ethernet is too
> busy
> } and the interface can't put the packet out on the
> } wire, so the packet is dropped. This is normal. I
>
> Bzzt, wrong! The packet isn't dropped, it's
> held and transmitted when the wire is free.
My mistake. I would argue that if there are many
deferred packets queue'd up waiting to being
transmitted that possibly the buffer for holding these
packets could become full, thus packets could get
dropped.
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