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by quaquita

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how do i know if we are experiencing network problems because of a high collision rate? How do I measure that?

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by churdoo

If you have managed switches, they should have an interface, either a browser interface or command-line interface via telnet/ssh, that will allow you access to this kind of information. Check the documentation of your switches.

by robo_dev

On a VERY heavily loaded switched ethernet network, you may see some collisions.

You would detect these either with through the SNMP management interface of the ethernet switch, or by using a network analysis tool such as Wireshark to observe re-transmissions.

Now if this is is a shared-ethernet topology, that's another story....

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