Network collisions

[rephlex]

Hi,

I am running a small home network with 2x win98se machines and one NTbox set up as a stand alone server - my problem is that I seem to be getting loads of collisions - detected by the crash led on my hub and running the network monitor on the ntbox.

Any ideas anyone??

 

[jimbopalmer]

"loads of collisions" if you have an ethernet hub, and are running half duplex, 10% collisions is pretty normal for ethernet.

full duplex ethernet in a switch will have fewer collisions, but ethernet always has some collisions, that is how it is designed. "late collisions" are always bad. I love everyone til they prove otherwise, sadly some prove otherwise SO quickly

 

[cowboy405]

Be sure both nic's are at half duplex. Hubs do not support full
duplex, and a duplex mismatch will produce exactly what you
describe.