[c-nsp] half duplex question

[Nick Hilliard]

On 03/08/2011 19:41, John Brown wrote:
> The issue you will have is that 10Mb/s Half duplex will only get about 3
> to 4 Mb/s worth of traffic.  This is because you will start to see
> collisions on the line.

Nonsense.  With half-duplex, you'll get about 7-8 megs of traffic on the
link before it starts petering out.  Collisions are a normal part of half
duplex operation, so if you see a bunch of collisions in the interface
counters, there's nothing to worry about.  It's excessive collisions that
cause the problem.

Nick