[c-nsp] packet losses with different sizes of icmp packtes

[Pierfrancesco Caci]

:-> "snort" == snort bsd <snortbsd at yahoo.com.au> writes:

    > hi all:
    > i have packet losses from one network to another and
    > those two networks connect each other via the same
    > router, different interafces (fast ethernet and using
    > ping packets). interestly, the rates of packet losses
    > were increasing as i increased the size of ping
    > packets (32 bytes, 64 bytes, and all the way to 1024
    > bytes). could anyone here explain this?


uhm, duplex mismatch, and longer packets suffer a higher chance of a
collision ?

Pf

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