This number of collision is normal. Ethernet is not an intelligent protocol, so it just blasts out packets willy-nilly, hoping to get a word in edge-wise before another Ethernet device does. A collision happens when two Ethernet devices speak out at the same instant.
The problem is something else. What does '/sbin/pump -s' say? Also, I believe there is a dhcp log of some kind in /var/logs. What does that say? I'll bet the problem is your ISP's dhcpd. John Hebert > -----Original Message----- > From: Boyd Davezac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [brluglist] Cox Cable needs to give free month this month... > > > Myself and several others have been having serious problems with Cox > internet. > > Since they changed to 4 hour leases on ip's with dhcp, some > of my friends > have lost their connection entirely, while I haven't I have > trouble loading > webpages. I have to hit reload many many times before > something loads. Some > pages load fine - but most of the time it's slow. I decided > to boot into > Linux from Windows so I could analyze the situation. Here is > what I found: > > Output from ifconfig eth0: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:59:4A:3D > inet addr:68.11.208.100 Bcast:68.11.208.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:7732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:4078 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:357 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:2618784 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:553814 (540.8 Kb) > Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc800 > > As you can see, after transmitting 540 kb and receiving 2.4Mb > it had 357 > collisions. I am not a network expert and don't know what is > causing this > as this was not a problem before. I think the collision > number should be > much lower huh? > > I am wondering how everyone else's connection is and could > someone tell me > if the collisions are indeed high or is this normal? > > Thanks, > > Boyd > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
