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RE: (ASCEND) Max2024 - Ethernet collisions & delays
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, William T. Willson wrote:
>
>Not really. 10% is a lot of collisions. A switch should filter out
the
>collisions that affect the outside world, however, it is possible (if
much
>of the traffic on the ethernet is going into and out of the Max, or if
>there is a lot of broadcast traffic - do you do a lot of filesharing
via
>Netbeui?) that your collisions are legitimate.
There is lots of file sharing over Netbeui, but not through the Max. I
often
see broadcast traffic going to all switch ports.
>Maxen under heavy load tend to have fits of slowness like this. When I
am
>getting smurfed, it's not uncommon for my pings to take a couple of
>seconds to get ironed out. It only happens, however, when there is a
LOT
>of traffic going on in more or less all directions. Collisions don't
seem
>to affect it. (But I don't have many collisions anyway).
The Max is under very light load much of the time (including when I took
the
samples.) I don't have to worry about getting smurfed because it is
protected from the Internet by a firewall.
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