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Re: (ASCEND) Network Collisions effect router?

> Phillip Grasso <phillip@1earth.net> wrote:
> 
> > Would this collision count make a max 1800, hangup connections and stop
> > responding to telnets, and on the console make the unit run really
> > really slow, like press a button and it moves 10-30 sec. later,
> > When reconnecting doesn't reconnect until 2 min later @ least?
> > Tx unicast:     4803985
> >    collisions:  220627
> >    no carrier:  15
> >    late coll:   33
> 
> Since collisions are handled in NIC hardware they never affect device
> performance. I would rather worry about the late collisions and
> loss of carrier which address a hardware/design problem of your
> network. Lost (corrupted) packets may lead to sluggisch TCP response.
> In addition, broadcast RIP trafic has a very negative effect on MAX
> performance.

Sometime ago it was mentioned on this list that heavy traffic on the
ethernet port would cause a Pipeline to reboot...not being able to cope
with every packet on the wire.
Could it be that MAXen will run into trouble as well?
I would guess "a lot of traffic" from the # of collisions, not
necessarily a network problem.

Suggestion: put the MAX on to a switch port and see if the problem
vanishes. Maybe a friend or a neighbour could bring in his spare switch
for a couple of hours :-P


Best regards,

   Wolfgang

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