On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> HW-Address of the interface. Thats the reason why u have less collisions
> with switches, cause they simply filter the Packets on the net for each
> port. You can also lock the arp-addresses in the switch for more security.
Just as a point of information, you don't necessarily see *less*
collisions on a loaded network that sustains a high load. I have a
network with three very heavily trafficed web servers on it, and moving
from a hub to a switch didn't help collisons at the router, because the
router would collide with each server just about as much (>0.5% difference
over 3 hours). It suprised me. But then the "I've been here over seven
years, and I've never seen one of our routers sustain that kind of load
continuously" from the Cisco engineer wasn't exactly heartwarming either.
(To be fair, the Cisco is handling the load admirably, the collisions are
just a fact of the traffic volume, perhaps teamed with the ethernet
drivers in the servers being asynchronous).
Paul
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