Topic: Too many collisions

[Launass]

I have a problem with my e-smith router/firewall. Everyting works fine, but I have many collisions on both eth0 & eth1.

What's wrong with it (cables & switch hubs seems goed) ?

[Charlie Brady]

Launass wrote:

> I have a problem with my e-smith router/firewall. Everyting
> works fine, but I have many collisions on both eth0 & eth1.
>
> What's wrong with it (cables & switch hubs seems goed) ?

I don't know. Maybe your network is just very busy?

Your problem doesn't sound to me to be e-smith software related.
The only software issue that I can thing of is whether the ethernet drivers start up in full-duplex or not, and most of them autodetect quite well. I'd suggest that you get a networking troubleshooter to give you a hand, if you can find one.

Charlie

[cryblood]

maybe if you made a simple diagram of how you have your network setup and posted that it someone might have an idea.

[Matthew Newton]

Launass wrote:

> I have a problem with my e-smith router/firewall. Everyting
> works fine, but I have many collisions on both eth0 & eth1.

What do you mean by "many collisions"? You can expect to have quite a lot of collisions on an ethernet network. The number of collisions will increase with traffic (which is probably proportional to the number of machines youve got on the segment). My linux server currently reports

RX packets:15208238
TX packets:38051844
collisions: 2173078

for a three computer 10Mbit network. This is floating around the 10% mark, which I _personally_ would have thought is about right.

Matthew Newton