Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitih
From: iiitih@cybaswan.UUCP (Ivan Izikowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet collisions
Keywords: LANalyzer Ethernet
Message-ID: <2184@cybaswan.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 11:54:26 GMT
References: <467@pirates.UUCP>
Reply-To: iiitih@cybaswan.UUCP (Ivan Izikowitz)
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If you don't think you have a faulty card, then you probably have a 
heavily loaded network. Just take a look at any of the published
performance curves for the 802.3 protocol - throughput is severely
degraded once the offered load exceeds a certain value (I think about
40% of channel capacity?)

   Ivan 

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