Re: Collision on NIC
From: Petri Helenius (pete_at_he.iki.fi)
Date: 05/29/03
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To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, "Erwane Breton" <breton@erwane.net> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:18:26 +0300
>
> Well, I don't see the problem.
>
> My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so deep in the
> noise as to be practically zero. What do you _think_ it should be?
>
Even Mr. Inventor of the ethernet himself regrets calling them collisions because
that term has a bad ring people unfamiliar with the technological detail.
Pete
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