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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet collisions
Keywords: LANalyzer Ethernet
Message-ID: <548@newave.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 90 03:03:25 GMT
References: <467@pirates.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <467@pirates.UUCP> bob@pirates.UUCP (Bob Fawcett) writes:
> I would like to know what can cause excessive collisions on Ethernet.  I 
> realize that collisions are a fact of life on ethernet.

> What other things should I look for?  Ground problems?  My cable scanner
> doesn't show any bad segments of cable.

I was recently fighting a problem like this.  It turned out to be a bad
connection between a tranciever and a drop cable to a router.  Unknown to
me at the time, the number of retries was very high.  This extra traffic
lead to excessive collisions.

-john-

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