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| 865.1 | Transmit collision | LEVERS::PAGLIARO | Rich Pagliaro, Hub Products Group | Tue Mar 29 1994 12:39 | 20 | 
|  |     Generally, the transmit collision counter is a measure of the number of
    times any of the repeater's ports participated in causing a collision
    on an attached segment. In contrast, a repeater also detects and
    responds to receive-mode collisions where two or more stations
    collide on a segment to which a repeater port is connected and the
    repeater port is not involved in causing the collision.
    
    Strictly speaking the transmit collisions counter counts the number of
    times the repeater state machine enters the TRANSMIT COLLISION state
    from any state other than ONE PORT LEFT. (See figure 9-2 of the IEEE
    802.3 specification). It should be noted that multiple DECrepeater900TMs
    connected to the same DEChub 900 flex channel (IMB) act in concert as a
    single repeater state machine. Therefore, the transmit collision
    counter of one such DECrepeater 900TM module will increment if a port
    of another DECrepeater 900TM on the same flex channel is involved in a
    collision.
    
    These counters are maintained by repeater hardware.
    
    -Rich Pagliaro    
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| 865.2 | merci.. | PADNOM::PEYRACHE | Jean-Yves Peyrache Country Support Group France | Wed Mar 30 1994 02:42 | 5 | 
|  | 
 thanks for this infos
  Jean-Yves
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| 865.3 | Collisions on a TP port ??? | ZUR01::SCHNEIDERR |  | Thu Jun 09 1994 08:51 | 4 | 
|  | I saw on our DECrepeater900TM many collisions on the TP ports. How can a 
collision occour on a TP port??
Roland
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| 865.4 |  | NACAD2::HERTZBERG | History: Love it or Leave it! | Fri Jun 10 1994 10:08 | 6 | 
|  |     Collision happens when the station attached to the TP port transmits
    into the repeater at the same time the repeater has traffic from some
    other connection (e.g., another TP port, backplane ThinWire or IMB,
    etc.).
    
    							Marc
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| 865.5 | There must be | LEVERS::PAGLIARO | Rich Pagliaro, Hub Products Group | Fri Jun 10 1994 10:12 | 14 | 
|  | >>  I saw on our DECrepeater900TM many collisions on the TP ports. How can
>>  a collision occour on a TP port??
    
    Easily...whenever the repeater is transmitting out a port and a station
    connected to that port is transmitting at the same time. While 10BaseT
    is a duplex link (i.e. separate transmit and receive data paths), the
    devices connected to each end of the link are still half-duplex. A
    station detects a collision whenever it simultaneously receives and
    transmits data. 
    
    Regards,
    
    Rich
    
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| 865.6 | Got a better card, then what? | CGOS01::DMARLOWE | Have you been HUBbed lately? | Fri Jun 10 1994 12:53 | 3 | 
|  |     What happens when you use full duplex Ethernet cards like the DE 425?
    
    dave
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| 865.7 | Don't connect a FDX card to a repeater | LEVERS::PAGLIARO | Rich Pagliaro, Hub Products Group | Fri Jun 10 1994 13:09 | 4 | 
|  |     Full duplex Ethernet will eliminate collisions but the DECrepeater
    900TM (or any 802.3 complient repeater) does not support full duplex
    Ethernet.
    
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| 865.8 | Full Duplex ethernet cards? | DPDMAI::DAVIES | Mark, SCA Area Network Consultant | Tue Jun 14 1994 16:41 | 12 | 
|  |     re: .-1
    
    Digital makes full duplex ethernet cards for PCs (DE 425)?  I am
    familiar with full duplex ethernet and our bridge implementations, I
    just wasn't aware we built cards for systems?
    
    Is this true?
    
    thanks,
    
    Mark
    
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| 865.9 | Check UPSAR::ETHERNET | LEVERS::PAGLIARO | Rich Pagliaro, Hub Products Group | Tue Jun 14 1994 17:24 | 10 | 
|  |     Digital does not currently build any DEChub-based full-duplex ethernet
    modules. I do not know what Digital sells/builds in the way of
    full-duplex ethernet adaptors/NICs.
    
    Perhaps you might have better luck asking that question in the 
    UPSAR::ETHERNET conference.
                    
    Regards,
    
    Rich
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