16 collisions isnt an error - it just thinks your cable was very busy or fell
out.
> Harald's test program "ntest" (reading data on one host from /dev/zero and
> writing it on another machine to /dev/null) other network connections
> dramatically slow down. A ftp session running concurrently to ntest gets
> only 3KB/sec. "ifconfig eth0" does not show any errors or overruns.
Ethernet isnt fair, ethernet isnt meant to be fair. Use token ring if you
want fairness. That one isnt a bug (the comment above about 450K/sec clearly
IS a bug tho)
Alan