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I have two FreeBSD3.1 box and three SuSE 6.2 box. I get such message from
them when running "netstat -i"?

From FreeBSD 3.1:
network:
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Coll
ed0   1500  <Link>      00.c0.df.a9.24.ca  4479954     6  7230473     0
67113
ed0   1500  192.168.1     fax              4479954     6  7230473     0
67113

From SuSE box:
Iface   MTU Met    RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
Flg
eth0   1500   0 24425128      3      0      0 21373578      0      0      4
BRU
lo     3924   0     7483      0      0      0     7483      0      0      0
LRU

From FreeBSD, it always show having "Coll". Is there any problem with my
FreeBSD box network card?

Thanks in advance,

Antony.

Nick

When a packet is sent out to the network, it tries to detect if there is a
collision (someone else already sending a packet).  If this is the case,
then both sending machines stop sending and wait for a random length of time
(hopefully both different) and try sending again.

Collision messages are nice - if it didn't know about them, it wouldn't be
able to send packets onto the network.

Matt

--
You can kill the revolutionary
But you can't kill the revolution!

: > From FreeBSD, it always show having "Coll". Is there any problem with my
: > FreeBSD box network card?
:
: Collisions are completely normal, and are a part of ethernet's flow
control
: mechanism.  Unless you're getting as many collisions as input/output
packets,
: you can safely ignore the figure.
:
: Nick